β Scribed by Claude McKay
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest. McKay'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, McKay's pristine "violent sonnets" were giving way to confessional lyrics informed by his newfound Catholicism.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
In her foreword to All The Poems (2003) Muriel Spark wrote, 'Although most of my life has been devoted to fiction, I have always thought of myself as a poet. I do not write "poetic" prose, but feel that my outlook on life and my perceptions of events are those of a poet.' Including previously uncoll
An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohnβs acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafyβincluding the first English translation of the poetβs final Unfinished Poemsβnow published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in
This volume brings together the complete original poems of the great American writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson went into the woods for inspiration, spending hours walking and contemplating amidst this most beloved of places. All of nature - the rhythms, the beauty, the mystery, the deep complexi
This volume brings together the complete original poems of the great American writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson went into the woods for inspiration, spending hours walking and contemplating amidst this most beloved of places. All of nature - the rhythms, the beauty, the mystery, the deep complexi
This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Edgar Allan Poeβs Complete Tales & Poems features 157 works by Poe, including all of his short stories and poems.69 Tales, including:β’ The Tell-Tale Heartβ’ The Murders in the Rue Morgueβ’ The Fall of the House of Usherβ’ The Masque of the Red Deathβ’ Th
One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience - which juxtapose poems such as 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger', and 'The Blossom' and