Léopold Senghor (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Léopold Senghor was a poet and a politician, a combination of professions unusual in the Anglo-Saxon world but not uncommon in French literary history. As one of the leaders of the emerging nationalism of the former French African colonies and later, as President of Senegal, Senghor was called upon to make speeches, prepare reports, and write articles in newspapers, reviews, and periodicals. These many articles deal with a variety of topics: political, cultural, economic, judicial, and social, as well as literary. In 1948, Senghor edited Anthologie de...
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