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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( D ) : Dunbar, Paul Laurence
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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With an introduction to Lyrics of Lowly Life.
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An American author whose reputation rests upon his verse and short stories written in African American dialect, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was among the first African American writers to become self-supporting as a writer and to attain national prominence.
This book contains his complete poetical works, his best short stories, numerous anecdotes and a complete biography of Dunbar by Lida Keck Wiggins, plus an introduction by William Dean Howells.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar was “the most promising young colored man” in nineteenth-century America, according to Frederick Douglass, and subsequently one of the most controversial. His plantation lyrics, written while he was an elevator boy in Ohio, established Dunbar as the premier writer of dialect poetry and garnered him international recognition. More than a vernacular lyricist, Dunbar was also a master of classical poetic forms, who helped demonstrate to post–Civil War America that literary genius did not reside solely in artists of European descent. William Dean Howells called Dunbar’s dialect poems “evidence of the essential unity of the human race, which does not think or feel black in one and white in another, but humanly in all.”
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Paul Laurence Dunbar, introduced to the American public by William Dean Howells, was the first native-born African American poet to achieve national and international fame. While there have been many valuable editions of his works over time, gaps have developed when manuscripts were lost or uncollected works became difficult to access. In His Own Voice brings together new and previously uncollected short stories, essays, and poems. Significantly, this volume also establishes Dunbar's reputation as a dramatist who mastered standard English conventions and used dialect in musical comedy for ironic effects. In His Own Voice collects more than a hundred works in six genres. Featured are the previously unpublished play Herrick and Dunbar's subversion of the minstrel tradition into one-acts that have been largely ignored for a century. This generous expension of the canon also includes a short story never before published. Professor Herbert Woodward Martin, renowned for his live portrayal of Dunbar, and Professor Ronald Primeau provide a literary and historical context to this previously untreated material, firmly cementing the reputation of an important American voice.
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Poetry. This is a double book, containing both GALILEO'S SUNS by Herbert Woodward Martin and EPICURUS' DOMINION by Deborah Ellen Stokes. David Shevin is the editor. From GALILEO'S SUNS: "I have climbed up the wooden stairs beyond where the/ Italian marble left off, high above everything else/ where only birds can breathe, in the thin and frayed/ threads of air."
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Spanning four centuries and including generous selections from the greatest and best-loved poets of the English language, this essential anthology is both a primer on the subject of love and a joyful expression of the written word.
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This digital document is an article from Ebony, published by Johnson Publishing Co. on December 1, 1989. The length of the article is 765 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Go tell it on the mountain: Christmas and the Black spirit. (poetry)
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publication: Ebony (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1989
Publisher: Johnson Publishing Co.
Volume: v45 Issue: n2 Page: p36(3)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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A brief biography of the poet precedes a collection of his works, most in standard English rather than dialect, with such themes as love, hate, death, nature, and religion.
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This collection of more than 30 favorites reminds us why Dunbar was celebrated as Black America's "Poet Laureate" and introduces yet another generation to his poems' wit, their power to inspire, to charm and amuse, and to their profound insight into the human condition.
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This book is illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Alice Morse.
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