Brown, Sterling Allen - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
BIOGRAPHY
Pinckney, Darryl. “The Last New Negro.” New York Review of Books 36, no. 4 (16 March 1989): 14-16.
Overview of Brown's life and career.
CRITICISM
Benson, Kimberly W. “Sterling Brown's After-Song.” Callaloo 5, nos. 1-2 (February-May 1982): 33-42.
Contends that “When De Saints Go Ma'ching Home” “both explicates and stages the model of authentic expression which constitutes the touchstone of Brown's subtle poetics.”
Collins, Michael. “Risk, Envy and Fear in Sterling Brown's Georgics.” Callaloo 21, no. 4 (fall 1998): 950-67.
Compares Brown's poetry to Virgil's Georgics and investigates the roles of risk and fear in Brown's verse.
Henderson, Stephen E. “The Heavy Blues of Sterling Brown: A Study of Craft and Tradition.” Black American Literature Forum 14, no. 1 (spring 1980): 32-44.
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