Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 2

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 interesting for the themes that they address as for those that they ignore, these selections offer a unique sampling of poetic voices that until now have gone largely unheard.

Product details

• Authors: Joan R. Sherman
• Assisted by: Joan R. Sherman (Editor), Sherman Joan R. (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2009
• EAN: 9780195052541
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505254-1
• Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; Collected Black Women's Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, Ethnic Studies, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Poetry anthologies (various poets), POETRY / American / African American & Black, Black & Asian Studies, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General