Saint Peter Relates an Incident (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- First Published: 1935
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, Segregation or integration, United States or Americans, Music or musicians, Prejudices or antipathies, Ethnic groups, Minorities, Ku Klux Klan, Spirituals, Soldiers, Patriotism, Tombs or graves, Resurrection
The Work
Saint Peter Relates an Incident: Selected Poems and God’s Trombones (1927) mark the culmination of James Weldon Johnson’s poetic work. His most famous poems appear in Saint Peter Relates an Incident, including the title poem, “O Black and Unknown Bards,” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
“Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day,” originally published in 1930, was written in response to the visit by mothers of highly decorated World War I soldiers to their sons’ graves in France. The State Department, which...
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