Sterling Brown (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
At a time when critics were celebrating the urban, educated “New Negro,” Sterling Allen Brown had the courage to publish Southern Road, a collection of poetry written in dialect that glorifies the rural southern African American. Perhaps it was Brown’s own genteel upbringing that gave him the psychological distance to explore his parents’ experiences growing up in Tennessee, from which he created a unified body of work and structure of meaning in African American poetry.
Adelaide Allen Brown and the Reverend Sterling Nelson Brown, pastor of Lincoln Temple...
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