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9781555537074

At the Dusk of Dawn

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    9781555537074

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    1555537073

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-08-28
  • Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr
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Summary

Albery Allson Whitman (1851-1901), born the child of slaves in Kentucky, made his livelihood as a preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He also produced a prodigious amount of poetry. Many of these works--replete with "mulatto" figures and vignettes about black, Native, and white subjects in the frontier spaces of the Midwest and Florida--prefigure current preoccupations in literary and cultural studies. This collection includes selections from all of his major narrative poems, along with other poems, letters, and a sermon. By collecting and republishing these works--many of which have been out of print for more than a century--this volume restores Whitman's standing as one of the most important post-Civil War African American writers.

Author Biography

Ivy G. Wilson is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University. He is the author of Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Nationalism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reconstructing Albery Allson Whitman
Narrative Poems
from Leelah Misled (1873)
from Not a Man, and Yet a Man (1877)
from The Rape of Florida (1884)
from An Idyl of the South (1901)
Miscellaneous Poems
Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1877)
Peace
Hymn to the Nation
The Lute of Afric's Tribe
To the Student
Custer's Last Ride
Sonnet.
The Montenegrin
Solon Stiles. Humorous
The Thunder Storm
To Baby's Canary, Accidentally Killed
The Deserted Road
Old Abe, The War Eagle of Wisconsin
Prosperity and Adversity
A Dream of Glory
Morton
Ye Bards of England
The Great Strike
The Tramp's Soliloquy
A Hint
Woods and Rocks
A Reverie (1886)
Drifted Leaves (1890)
My Mountain Home
The Eagle
The Desolate Man
The Cow Bell
A Laugh
The Veteran
A Night Among the Mountains of the Winding Tennessee
Stonewall Jackson
What Is It?
Genius
A Question
Where the Yellow Sumacs Grow
Grant
Lines on Watching the Stars
The Kansas Traveler
The Fortunes of War
A Floater
Uncle Saul's Resolve
Tobe's Poem
Autumn
After Sunset
An Autumn Scene
Bells of Time
Poem to Bishop H. M. Turner (1892)
The World's Fair Poem (1893)
A Contrast (1898)
Prefaces, Letters, and a Sermon
Preface to Leelah Misled (1873)
Preface to Not a Man, and Yet a Man (1877)
Preface to The Rape of Florida (1884)
Preface to Twasinta's Seminoles (1885)
Preface to An Idyl of the South (1901)
Letter to Rutherford B. Hayes, November 12th, 1877
Letter to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, January 27th, 1878
Letter to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, March 6th, 1878
Letter to Frederick Douglass, March 28th, 1889
An Educational Sermon on the Needs of the Negro (1895)
Notes
Bibliography
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