The Contribution of the Negro to Contemporary American Poetry
Abstract
The place of poetry, in the cultural development of a race of people, has always been considered one of great importance. I have included in this treatise, the purpose of which is to make known the cultural talent in literature that has been manifested by the poets of the Negro race, not only the major poets of the race but also the minor poets whom I consider worthy of mention not for the superiority of their work but for what they have attempted. They were the subject of literature long before they became the serious and conscious creators of it. Their years of servitude have left a deposit of rich lore delicately threaded through the pattern of American life, and a strange inimitable music, which, in its vitality and varied forms, grows deeper and wider in influence with the years.
Subject Area
American literature|African American Studies
Recommended Citation
Gallagher, Mary Fabian, "The Contribution of the Negro to Contemporary American Poetry" (1933). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28289033.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28289033
