A towering figure in African-American history, W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 1963) created a substantial literary legacy beyond such seminal works as The Souls of Black Folk. This volume highlights his other nonfiction writings and should be of great value to students in secondary school and college as well as to other readers. Contents include: Strivings of the Negro People (1897) A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South (1899) The Song of the Smoke (1899) The Black North: A Social Study (1901) The Sorrow Songs (1903) The Talented Tenth (1903) Credo...
A towering figure in African-American history, W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 1963) created a substantial literary legacy beyond such seminal works as The ...
"Absolutely wonderful; a marvelous journey which meanders through some of the most formative literature, non-fiction, and poetry to come out of the United States." -- The Literary Sisters At the end of the Civil War, another long and arduous struggle began as the nation attempted to reunite. Literature offered a path toward solidarity, and this concise anthology surveys the writings of major American authors from the war's end to the dawn of the Jazz Age. Featured works include those of Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and...
"Absolutely wonderful; a marvelous journey which meanders through some of the most formative literature, non-fiction, and poetry to come out of the...
