The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar

by Paul Laurence Dunbar · 1913

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This new "most complete" edition of the collected poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the virtual father of black American poetry, includes sixty poems not included in the previous — and now out of print — "Complete Poems." Sixteen of these were found in manuscript form.

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African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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