Sterling Allen BrownSterling Allen Brown
(1901 - 1989)

Poet, teacher, and writer, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He graduated from Williams College (BA 1925), then Harvard (MA 1930), and was based in Washington, DC. He taught primarily at Howard University (1929--69), and is known as a poet and a founder of black literary criticism, as in Negro Poetry and Drama (1937); but above all he was an influential teacher and encourager of African-American writers in the decades before they were being widely recognized.  (Biography Source: http://www.biography.com/)

 

The Collected Poem...Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown
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ISBN: 081015045X
Format: Paperback, 267pp
Pub. Date: April 1996
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Edition Description: REPRINT

From The Reader's Catalog:  
"Sterling's poems reveal how in the struggle to exist the historic stands alongside the everyday...None of the characters in his ballads is treated sentimentally because his first duty was not to his sympathies but to the poem"
―Darryl Pinckney

 

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