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Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 3

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Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 3 - Sherman, Joan R (Editor)
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These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. The other three volumes contain works by nine other poets. Surprisingly, only one of them (Lizelia Moorer) protests at the treatment of her race during this period of social upheaval and injustice. The other poets treat the traditional themes - love, nature, death, Christian idealism and morality, family - in conventional forms and language. As ...

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Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 3 1988, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195052558

Hardcover