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A review by shakespeareandspice
African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927 by Langston Hughes, Goerge Moses Horton, James Weldon Johnson, George Moses Horton, Frances E.W. Harper, Phillis Wheatley Peters, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Daniel Webster Davis, Joan R. Sherman, Alberry Alston Whitman, Countee Cullen, Mary Weston Fordham, Paul Laurence Dunbar
3.0
It’s difficult to rate a collection or an anthology of anything given the diversity of the material, but I’d say this collection was a solid 3 star read.
Some poets and their works were extraordinary and became some of my favorite poems of all time. However, as the collection progressed, I enjoyed some of the more Christian and religious poetry even less over time. Majority of my appreciation was for the critique of the Western civilization and what it is has done to the African cultures and its people.
If you’re looking for a place to start reading African American poetry, this is a nice read. But as a slightly more advanced reader, I wanted something more fulfilling.
A few of my favorites from the collection:
– Joshua McCarter Simpson: To the White People of America
– James Monroe Whitfield: How Long?
– Claude McKay: Enslaved, If We Must Die, and Harlem Dancer.
– By Phillis Wheatley, an all-time favorite I adore rereading: On Being Brought From Africa To America
– Another all-item favorite is Langston Hughes: I, Too and The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
Some poets and their works were extraordinary and became some of my favorite poems of all time. However, as the collection progressed, I enjoyed some of the more Christian and religious poetry even less over time. Majority of my appreciation was for the critique of the Western civilization and what it is has done to the African cultures and its people.
If you’re looking for a place to start reading African American poetry, this is a nice read. But as a slightly more advanced reader, I wanted something more fulfilling.
A few of my favorites from the collection:
– Joshua McCarter Simpson: To the White People of America
– James Monroe Whitfield: How Long?
– Claude McKay: Enslaved, If We Must Die, and Harlem Dancer.
– By Phillis Wheatley, an all-time favorite I adore rereading: On Being Brought From Africa To America
– Another all-item favorite is Langston Hughes: I, Too and The Negro Speaks of Rivers.