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Color, Countee Cullen
Color, Countee Cullen
Electronic Texts in American Studies
Poet, playwright, novelist, graduate of DeWitt Clinton High, New York University, and Harvard University, Countee Cullen (1903–1946) emerged as a leading literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Color (1925), his first published book of poetry, confronts head-on what W.E.B. DuBois called “the problem of the 20th century—the problem of the color line.” The work includes 72 poems, such as the following:
Incident (For Eric Walrond)
Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.
Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, …
A Soldier's Valentine Written The Spanish-American War By C. L. Wedding (Sc 3053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
A Soldier's Valentine Written The Spanish-American War By C. L. Wedding (Sc 3053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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"A Soldier's Valentine," a Spanish-American War-era poem by C. L. Wedding from Ohio County, Kentucky. Also includes clippings about the poem.