Claude McKay. Complete Poems.(Book review)

African American Review | June 22, 2006| | Copyright

Claude McKay. Complete Poems. Ed. William J. Maxwell. American Poetry Recovery Series. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2004. 464 pp. $40.00.

Despite his reputation as the first Afro-Caribbean poet to write dialect poetry, as well as recognition for a few other categorical black firsts credits, Claude McKay remained until recent years a somewhat remote figure, particularly when arranged alongside such Harlem Renaissance leading lights as Du Bois, Hughes, and Hurston. Scholars presently are reassessing the poet through fertile new critical modes, however, and William J. ...

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