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Tolson, Melvin B
by A Gallery of Harlem Portraits
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0826202764
- ISBN 13
- 9780826202765
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Columbia. 1979. University of Missouri Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0826202764. Edited and with an afterword by Robert M. Farnsworth. 276 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Jerry Dadds. keywords: Poetry America Literature Harlem African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A Gallery of Harlem Portraits is Melvin B. Tolson's first book-length collection of poems. It was written in the 1930s when Tolson was immersed in the writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the subject of his master's thesis at Columbia University, and will provide scholars and critics a rich insight into how Tolson's literary picture of Harlem evolved. Modeled on Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology and showing the influence of Browning and Whitman, it is rooted in the Harlem Renaissance in its fascination with Harlem's cultural and ethnic diversity and its use of musical forms. Robert M. Farnsworth's afterword elucidates these and other literary influences. Tolson eventually attempted to incorporate the technical achievements of T.S. Eliot and the New Criticism into a complex modern poetry which would accurately represent the extraordinary tensions, paradoxes, and sophistication, both highbrow and lowbrow, of modern Harlem. As a consequence his position in literary history is problematical. The publication of this earliest of his manuscripts will help clarify Tolson's achievement and surprise many of his readers with its readily accessible, warmly human poetic portraiture. inventory #45792 ISBN: 0826202764.
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- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45792
- Title
- Tolson, Melvin B
- Author
- A Gallery of Harlem Portraits
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0826202764
- ISBN 13
- 9780826202765
- Publisher
- Univ of Missouri Pr
- Place of Publication
- Columbia Mo
- This edition first published
- January 1980
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