Brooks, Gwendolyn (Vol. 125) - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Criticism
Hughes, Gertrude Reif. "Making It Really New: Hilda Doolittle, Gwendolyn Brooks, and the Feminist Potential of Modern Poetry." American Quarterly 42, No. 3 (September 1990): 375-401.
Examines the appropriation of modernist literary strategies and anti-heroism in the poetry of Doolittle and Brooks.
Kent, George E. "Aesthetic Values in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks." In Black Literature and Humanism, edited by R. Baxter Miller, pp. 75-94. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981.
Discusses elements of existential despair and the social alienation of African-Americans in Brooks's poetry.
Miller, R. Baxter. "'Does Man Love Art?': The Humanistic Aesthetic of Gwendolyn Brooks." In Black Literature and Humanism, edited by R. Baxter Miller, pp. 95-112. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981.
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