Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race (1914) is a
pamphlet on American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published nearly a
decade after Dunbar's untimely death, Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet
Laureate of the Negro Race contains three essays on his life, his
legacy, and his importance to American literature. Born in Dayton,
Ohio, Dunbar was the son of parents who were emancipated from
slavery in Kentucky during the American Civil War. In 1893, he
published Oak and Ivy, a debut collection of poetry blending
traditional verse and poems written in dialect. Over the next
decade, Dunbar wrote ten more books of poetry, four collections of
short stories, four novels, a musical, and a play. In his brief
career, Dunbar became a respected advocate for civil rights,
participating in meetings and helping to found the American Negro
Academy. His lyrics for In Dahomey (1903) formed the centerpiece to
the first musical written and performed by African Americans on
Broadway, and many of his essays and poems appeared in the nation's
leading publications, including Harper's Weekly and the Saturday
Evening Post. Diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1900, however,
Dunbar's health steadily declined in his final years, leading to
his death at the age of thirty-three while at the height of his
career. Alice Dunbar-Nelson, in her essay, reflects on the man her
husband was, a "true poet" who "reached out and groped for the
bigness of the out-of-doors, divining all that he was afterwards to
see." In his piece, classical scholar William S. Scarborough argues
for Dunbar's importance to African American history as "the first
among ten million," as a man who "did not inherit, [but]
originated." To close the collection, Reverdy C. Ransom briefly
eulogizes a poet whose loss was a blow to a people and a nation,
whose name must be spoken in the same breath as Wheatley, Browning,
Shelley, Burns, Keats, and Poe. More than anything, Paul Laurence
Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race cements his reputation as
an artist with a powerful vision of faith and perseverance who
sought to capture and examine the diversity of the African American
experience. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet
Laureate of the Negro Race is a classic of African American
literature reimagined for modern readers.
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