Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude Mc Kay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest. Mc Kay’s first poems were composed in rural Jamaican creole and launched his lifelong commitment to representing everyday black culture from the bottom up. Migrating to New York, he reinvigorated the English sonnet and helped spark the Harlem Renaissance with poems such as "If We Must Die." After coming under scrutiny for his communism, he traveled throughout Europe and North Africa for twelve years and returned to Harlem in 1934, having denounced Stalin’s Soviet Union. By then, Mc Kay’s pristine "violent sonnets" were giving way to confessional lyrics informed by his newfound Catholicism.Mc Kay’s verse eludes easy definition, yet this complete anthology, vividly introduced and carefully annotated by William J. Maxwell, acquaints readers with the full transnational evolution of a major voice in twentieth-century poetry.
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Ngôn ngữ Anh ● định dạng EPUB ● Trang 456 ● ISBN 9780252094972 ● Biên tập viên Maxwell William J. Maxwell ● Nhà xuất bản University of Illinois Press ● Được phát hành 2004 ● Có thể tải xuống 6 lần ● Tiền tệ EUR ● TÔI 2766912 ● Sao chép bảo vệ Adobe DRM
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