Countee Cullen: Poet of the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781978505308)

For a few shining years Countee Cullen seemed destined to define the African American urban experience. A gifted poet, Cullen wrote some of the outstanding works of the 1920s, and when he married Yolande Du Bois, in what was proclaimed the social event of the decade, his success and fame seemed assured. It was not to be. The marriage failed, and with it Cullen lost his best patrons and his poetic productivity declined sharply. After remarrying, Cullen was on the cusp of reinventing himself, as a writer for the theatre, when he died an untimely death. Through it all, he remained faithful to his vision of words, poetry, and the duty of a person who felt his blackness, but did not wish to be constrained by it.

Author: Charlotte Etinde-Crompton, Samuel Willard Crompton
ISBN-10: 1978505302
ISBN-13: 9781978505308
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/30/2019
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.30d