網頁Sterling Brown's poetic genius lies in his subtle adaptation of blues, spirituals, work songs, and ballads into silver threads that dazzle his spoken verse. The quote is from Smithsonian Folkways. "In the beginning I never found poems in the American literary pantheon about the things I knew best. 網頁Sterling Allen Brown (1901-1989) Sterling Brown is one of the unsung heroes of African-American poetry. Born in 1901, died in 1989, Brown spent most of his life as an English …

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網頁Challenge. Sterling A. Brown - 1901-1989. I said, in drunken pride of youth and you. That mischief-making Time would never dare. Play his ill-humored tricks upon us two, Strange and defiant lovers that we were. I said that even Death, Highwayman Death, 網頁Sterling Allen Brown was an essayist, poet and professor of the English language. He was born in 1901 in Washington into an African American family of a middle class. His father Sterling Nelson Brown was a divinity schoolteacher. Being the son of a well-known pastor and theologian, Sterling Brown graduated from the famous Dunbar High School. red roof inn tv

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網頁This selection of the writings of the influential African American critic and poet Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) demonstrates his critical acumen and commitment to inclusive politics. 網頁2024年7月15日 · STERLING A. BROWN (1901–1989) was one of the most important and influential figures in the development of African American literature and criticism in the twentieth century. Born in Washington, D.C., he was not only a poet but also a distinguished folklorist, anthologist, critic, and reviewer. 網頁1989年1月17日 · Sterling A. Brown, a poet and former professor of literature who helped to establish Afro-American literary criticism and who taught many of the nation's black scholars and writers, died of... red roof inn \u0026 suites manchester tn