Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949 (1949 Doubleday and Company edition) (Q5595)
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first Doubleday & Company edition, published in Garden City, NY in 1949
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949 (1949 Doubleday and Company edition) |
first Doubleday & Company edition, published in Garden City, NY in 1949 |
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THE POETRY | OF THE NEGRO | 1746-1949 | [line] | AN ANTHOLOGY EDITED BY | LANGSTON HUGHES | AND | ARNA BONTEMPS | [line] | DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., 1949 | GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
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COPYRIGHT, 1949, BY LANGSTON HUGHES AND ARNA BONTEMPS | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT | THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
title page verso
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[1] The editors of this anthology are deeply indebted to the following persons for advice, guidance, research, or discovery: in regard to the poetry of the Caribbean, particularly are we grateful to Vivian L. Virtue and Wycliffe S. Bennett of the Poetry League of Jamaica, and to Edna Manley;
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[2] for invaluable assistance in assembling the biographies of the Haitian poets, to Rene Piquion, Clovis Charlot, and Dr. Mercer Cook; for careful research and help with the many details of checking and preparing the manuscript, to Dr. Hugh S. Smythe, Rosamond Johnson, Minnie Redmond Bowles, Nathaniel V. White, and Marjorie Greene;
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[3] for aid in securing certain poems to Ralph Ellison and Cedric Dover; and to Arthur Spingarn for sharing with us his vast knowledge of the Negro literature of this hemisphere.
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