Paul Laurence Dunbar was the most promising young colored man in nineteenth-century America, according to Frederick Douglass, and subsequently on...
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Nov 13, 2010
Jim
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Dunbar is my new favourite poet!
he wrote a lot of poetry in dialect, think of Robt Service writing of the South instead of the Yukon. this edition is the two dollar dover, one of the best bargains i've gotten. should be able to find is work in the public domain, ie. Bartleby.com.
one poem, The Haunted Oak, is written from the view point of an oak tree in which an innocent man was hung from.
if someone gave me a choice of books i've not read by Service, Millay and Dunb More...
he wrote a lot of poetry in dialect, think of Robt Service writing of the South instead of the Yukon. this edition is the two dollar dover, one of the best bargains i've gotten. should be able to find is work in the public domain, ie. Bartleby.com.
one poem, The Haunted Oak, is written from the view point of an oak tree in which an innocent man was hung from.
if someone gave me a choice of books i've not read by Service, Millay and Dunb More...
May 08, 2011
Tara
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This was a great selection of poems. I love Dunbar's funny poems and his romantic poems are adorable. This is a great poetry book.
Feb 27, 2011
Anne
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I found some of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poems such as, "We Were the Mask", gripping. However, I struggled with his romantic poems written in standard English. The tyranny of the rhyme robbed the poems of concrete detail or meaning. They didn't evoke a specific moment or emotion for me, but rather a generic sentiment or time. Some of the poems that were written in vernacular, though they maintained a rhythm, were more interesting. The rhyme seemed to be playful, almost slyly mocking the
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