A Gallery of Harlem Portraits

Released on by Melvin B. Tolson
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  • A Gallery of Harlem Portraits Book Detail

  • Author : Melvin B. Tolson
  • Release Date : 2013-10-10
  • Publisher : University of Missouri Press
  • Genre : Poetry
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN 13 : 0826273130
  • File Size : 90,90 MB
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A Gallery of Harlem Portraits by Melvin B. Tolson PDF Summary

Book Description: A Gallery of Harlem Portraits is Melvin B. Tolson's first book-length collection of poems. It was written in the 1930s when Tolson was immersed in the writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the subject of his master's thesis at Columbia University, and will provide scholars and critics a rich insight into how Tolson's literary picture of Harlem evolved. Modeled on Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology and showing the influence of Browning and Whitman, it is rooted in the Harlem Renaissance in its fascination with Harlem's cultural and ethnic diversity and its use of musical forms. Robert M. Farnsworth's afterword elucidates these and other literary influences. Tolson eventually attempted to incorporate the technical achievements of T.S. Eliot and the New Criticism into a complex modern poetry which would accurately represent the extraordinary tensions, paradoxes, and sophistication, both highbrow and lowbrow, of modern Harlem. As a consequence his position in literary history is problematical. The publication of this earliest of his manuscripts will help clarify Tolson's achievement and surprise many of his readers with its readily accessible, warmly human poetic portraiture.

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