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1. www.literaryladiesguide.com › literary-analysesJames Weldon Johnson’s Analysis of Phillis Wheatley’s Poetry

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   1 day ago · The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), chosen and edited by Johnson, was one of a handful of significant anthologies of Black literature to be published in the 1920s. The segment following, in which he provides and analysis of Phillis Wheatley’s poetry, is a portion of the Johnson’s Preface to this collection.

2. www.gutenberg.org › ebooks › 11986The Book of American Negro Poetry by James Weldon Johnson

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   Apr 1, 2004 · This anthology aims to showcase the works of American Negro poets, providing insights into the racial and cultural experiences of Black Americans and highlighting their significant contributions to American literature.

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   The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923), An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes (1924), and Caroling Dusk (1927) have been cited as four major poetry anthologies of the Harlem Renaissance.

4. www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › james-weldon-johnsonJames Weldon Johnson | The Poetry Foundation

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   He earned critical acclaim in 1922 for editing a seminal collection of Black verse, titled The Book of American Negro Poetry. Johnson’s critical introduction to this volume provided new insights into an often ignored or denigrated genre and is now considered a classic analysis of early Black contributions to American literature.

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   The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was published with the hope of bringing to the public a greater awareness of the art and literature created by Black writers.

   Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
   Play 01	PREFACE (PART ONE)	Jim Locke	00:48:47
   Play 02	PREFACE (PART TWO)	Jim Locke	00:32:07
   Play 03	PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR	Lynda Marie Neilson	00:17:20
   Play 04	JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL	Kahlil B	00:09:38

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6. www.poetryfoundation.org › articles › 68438The Black Poet as Canon-Maker - Poetry Foundation

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   Feb 2, 2007 · In his 1921 introduction to The Book of American Negro Poetry, James Weldon Johnson states plainly: A people may become great by many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.

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   What is the Book of American Negro Poetry?

   • The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was published with the hope of bringing to the public a greater awareness of the art and literature created by Black writers.

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   What is Negro Poetry?

   • In The Book of American Negro Poetry, Johnson had compared the traditional Dunbar-style-dialect verse to an organ having only two stops, one of humor and one of pathos, and he sought with God’s Trombones to create a more flexible and dignified medium for expressing the Black religious spirit.

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   Who was a new Negro poet?

   • The term 'New Negro' was used to describe a group of African American poets who emerged during the Harlem Renaissance. Poets such as Waring Cuney, Melvin Tolson, Jessie Fauset, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, and Georgia Douglas Johnson were initially included under this umbrella. However, by 1960, there was a clear sense of an old guard and a vanguard in African American poetry, and some poets from the earlier generation no longer fit under the 'New Negro' label.

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   Should anthologies make black poetry more widely available?

   • The time was right for anthologies to make black poetry more accessible to the public. Excerpt from ‘The Black Poet as Canon-Maker: Langston Hughes and the Road to New Negro Poets: USA’ Copyright 2004 by Elizabeth Alexander. Reprinted from The Black Interior with the permission of Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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   Is Negro psychology a good book?

   • Carl Van Vechten, for example, found the novel “an invaluable source-book for the study of Negro psychology,” and the New Republic’ s Edmund Wilson judged the book “an excellent, honest piece of work” as “a human and sociological document.”

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   Does Amiri Baraka have a poem in New Negro Poets?

   • Amiri Baraka, then Leroi Jones, receives confirmation that his poems are included in New Negro Poets from Langston Hughes. He expresses his happiness about it in a letter dated 19 October 1966.

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   The Book of American Negro Poetry. With an Essay on the Negro’s Creative Genius. Chosen and Edited by James Weldon Johnson. The 31 representative poets in this anthology of 177 works inspired the Harlem Renaissance generation to establish firmly an African-American literary tradition in the United States. Bibliographic Record Preface Appendix ...