Presents the 1913 edition of African-American writer Paul Dunbar's collected poems and adds sixty poems to it, also providing variants, selected primary and sec
Paul Laurence Dunbar's 'The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar' offers an expansive tableau of the African American experience at the turn of the 20th centu
Dunbar is the first American Negro of pure African bloodto reveal innate distinction in literature; as W.D. Howells has said, to feel the Negro life estheticall