showmikmik wrote:
Among the leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen is the writer whose role in that movement is most difficult to assess. This difficulty arises in part because his poetry emulates the style and tone of nineteenth century English Romanticism, but real complexity concerns his choice of subject matter. Cullen entered Harvard in 1925, to pursue a master in English, about the same time his collections of poems, Color, was published. Written in a careful, traditional style, the work
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