Robert Hayden (1913--80) belonged to the generation of African
American writers that followed the Harlem Renaissance--the
generation of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright,
among others. This collection of essays on Hayden by leading
critics and poets charts his growing reputation as a major writer,
the author of some of the twentieth century's most important poems
on African American themes, including the famed "Middle Passage"
and "Frederick Douglass." The pieces illuminate the themes and
techniques that established Hayden as a key modernist writer with
affinities both to poets such as T. S. Eliot, Federico Garcia
Lorca, and W. B. Yeats, and to traditions of African American
writings, traditions exemplified by such figures as Countee Cullen
and Langston Hughes.
"Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry" covers sixty years of
commentary, book reviews, and essays, and includes newly published
material by Hayden himself, making it an invaluable contribution to
our understanding of this poet's vision of experience, artistry,
and influence. Forty works examine the life and poetry of the first
African American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of
Congress (the post now called Poet Laureate) and the first to
receive the Grand Prix de la Poesie at the First World Festival of
Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal, in 1966. This collection will be the
standard text on Hayden for many years and will provide an
invaluable aid to students, scholars, and the poet's growing number
of admirers around the world.
Laurence Goldstein is Professor of English, University of Michigan,
and editor of the "Michigan Quarterly Review," His books include
"The American Poet at the Movies,"Robert Chrisman is founding
editor of "The Black Scholar," A poet and essayist, he is a
Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, where he
teaches literature and media in the Department of African-American
Studies.
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