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Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry
Laurence Goldstein and Robert Chrisman, EditorsThis collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden's growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century's most important poems on African-American themes, including the famed "Middle Passage" and "Frederick Douglass." The essays illuminate the themes and techniques that established Hayden as a modernist writer with affinities to T. S. Eliot, Federico Garcia Lorca, and W. B. Yeats, as well as to traditions of African-American writings that include such figures as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.
Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry is the first and only book to collect significant essays on this distinguished poet. Covering sixty years of commentary, book reviews, essays, and Hayden's own published materials, this volume is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the poet's vision of experience, artistry, and influence. The book includes forty different works that examine the life and poetry of Hayden, the first African-American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the post now called Poet Laureate) and to receive the Grand Prix de la Poesie at the First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal, in 1966.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Contents
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Chronology
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Introduction
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Part One: The Poet's Voice
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Statement on Poetics
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Entrances and Tableaux for Josephine Baker [an unfinished draft]
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Ballad of the True Beast
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An Interview with Dennis Gendron
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A Conversation with A. Poulin, Jr.
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Three Book Reviews
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Part Two: Reviews
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Heart-Shape in the Dust: A New Negro Voice
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Heart-Shape in the Dust: Review of Heart-Shape in the Dust
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Heart-Shape in the Dust: Concerning a Poet and a Critic
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The Lion and the Archer: Negro Poets
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The Lion and the Archer: All for a Dollar
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A Ballad of Remembrance: From “Four Voices in Recent American Poetry”
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Selected Poems: From Books Noted
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Selected Poems: From “Three Recent Volumes”
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Selected Poems: On Selected Poems
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Words in the Mourning Time
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The Night-Blooming Cereus
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Angle of Ascent: Language against Fear
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Angle of Ascent: Angle of Ascent
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Angle of Ascent: From “Poetry Chronicle”
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Collected Poems: Mean to Be Free
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Part Three: General Essays
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Robert Hayden Remembered
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Every Shut-Eye Aint Asleep / Every Good-bye Aint Gone
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On Heart-Shape in the Dust
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Robert Hayden: The Transition Years, 1946–1948
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Covenant of Timelessness and Time: Symbolism and History in Robert Hayden's Angle of Ascent
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Angle of Ascent: The Poetry of Robert Hayden
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Image and Idea in the Poetry of Robert Hayden
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Poetry from Detroit's Black Bottom: The Tension between Belief and Ideology in the Work of Robert Hayden
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A Man That in His Writing was Most Wise
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Robert Hayden: The Man in the Middle
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Theme and Variations on Robert Hayden's Poetry
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Part Four: Essays on Individual Poems
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The “Banked Fire” of Robert Hayden's “Those Winter Sundays”
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The Greatest Poem in the World [“Perseus”]
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Robert Hayden's “Frederick Douglass”: Form and Meaning in a Modern Sonnet
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Answering the Waste Land: Robert Hayden and the Rise of the African-American Poetic Sequence
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Changing Permanences: Historical and Literary Revisionism in Robert Hayden's “Middle Passage”
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Shining [“Runagate Runagate”]
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The Eye of Faith [“Monet's ‘Waterlilies’”]
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Journey into “[American Journal]”
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Selected Bibliography
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- 978-0-472-03589-2 (paper)
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