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Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end of the American Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance.
Living through the turn of the century was Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson(1875–1935), a poet often thought of in relation to her marriage to Paul Dunbar. [ 21 ] [ 28 ] Dunbar-Nelson, however, is an accomplished writer in her own right, praised by poet Camille Dungy for breaking out of writing only about "black women's things," instead addressing ...
They include Countee Cullen (1903–1946), Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935), Gwendolyn Bennett (1902–1981), Langston Hughes (1902–1967), Claude McKay (1889–1948), Jean Toomer (1894–1967), and other African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance. The modernist torch was carried in the 1930s mainly by the group of poets known as the ...
Mine Eyes Have Seen is a play by Alice Dunbar Nelson. It was published in the April 1918 edition of the monthly news magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) entitled The Crisis. [1]
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Paul Rand. Harcourt, Brace 1975 ISBN 9780156957052 "Review of Poems, in Two Volumes by Francis Jeffrey, in Edinburgh Review, pp. 214–231, vol. XI, October 1807 – January 1808; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 in audio on Poetry Foundation
Emilia Lanier (1569–1645), among first Englishwomen to publish a volume of original poems and seek patronage; Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641), English writer, teacher, and polemicist; Anne de Marquets (c. 1533–1588), French poet; Camille de Morel (1547–1611), French poet and writer; Isabella di Morra (c. 1520–1546), Italian poet of the ...
1987: Color, Sex and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Indiana University Press, ISBN 9780253204301. 1988: (Editor), The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 3 vols, Oxford University Press. 1989: Healing Heart, Poems 1973–1988, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, ISBN 9780913175163.
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present is a compilation of orature and literature by more than 200 women from Africa and the African diaspora, edited and introduced by Margaret Busby, [2] who compared the process of assembling the volume to "trying to catch a flowing river in a calabash".