Harlem Shadows (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Claude McKay
- First Published: 1922
- Type of Work: Book of poems
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, Discrimination, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Racism, Blacks, New York City, Harlem Renaissance, 1920’s
The Poems
With the publication of Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads (both 1912), Claude McKay achieved immediate recognition in Jamaica as a poet of some consequence, especially in the use of dialect, and he was considered a local equivalent of Robert Burns, the Scottish Romantic poet. However, upon his migration to the United States he abandoned dialect, and in Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920) he showed his ability to experiment with rhythm, rhyme, meter, and even poetic structure.
The extent of his willingness and ability to...
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