Sterling A. Brown's achievement and influence in the field of American literature and culture are unquestionably significant. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, German, and Russian and has been read in literary circles throughout the world. He is also one of the principal architects of black criticism. His critical essays and books are seminal works that give an insider's perspective of literature by and about blacks. Leopold Sedar Senghor, who became familiar with Brown's poetry and criticism in the 1920s and 1930s, called him "an original militant of Negritude, a precursor of our movement." Yet Joanne V. Gabbin's book, originally published in 1985, remains the only study of Brown's work and influence. Gabbin sketches Brown's life, drawing on personal interviews and viewing his achievements as a poet, critic, and cultural griot. She analyzes in depth the formal and thematic qualities of his poetry, revealing his subtle adaptation of song forms, especially the blues. To articulate the aesthetic principles Brown recognized in the writings of black authors, Gabbin explores his identification of the various elements that have come together to create American culture.
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With these lines from an old spiritual, Sterling A. Brown opens his first book of poems, Soulhern Road.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
literary audience, folk speech, negro poets, folk rhymes, folk expression, dialect poetry, black life, folk life, folk character, ballad form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sterling Brown, New York, Howard University, Wild Bill, The Negro Caravan, Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Stephen Henderson, Understanding the New Black Poetry, United States, Steven Jones, Black Americans, The Collected Poems of Sterling, Jean Toomer, Slim Greer, Old Lem, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Ulysses Lee, Robert Frost, Fisk University, Harlem Renaissance, Memphis Blues, New Deal New!
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With these lines from an old spiritual, Sterling A. Brown opens his first book of poems, Soulhern Road.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
literary audience, folk speech, negro poets, folk rhymes, folk expression, dialect poetry, black life, folk life, folk character, ballad form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sterling Brown, New York, Howard University, Wild Bill, The Negro Caravan, Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Stephen Henderson, Understanding the New Black Poetry, United States, Steven Jones, Black Americans, The Collected Poems of Sterling, Jean Toomer, Slim Greer, Old Lem, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Ulysses Lee, Robert Frost, Fisk University, Harlem Renaissance, Memphis Blues, New Deal New!
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- The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry by Joanne V. Gabbin on page 37, page 134, and Back Matter
- Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) by Sascha Feinstein on page 58
- Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought (New Americanists) by Paul Allen Anderson in Back Matter
- Performing the Word: African American Poetry As Vernacular Culture by Fahamisha Patricia Brown in Back Matter
- New Working-Class Studies (Ilr Press Book) by John Russo in Back Matter
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