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Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
by James Weldon Johnson

    Publication Date: Oct 01, 2000
    List Price: $16.00
    Format: Paperback, 202 pages
    Classification: Poetry
    ISBN13: 9780141185453
    Imprint: Penguin Classics
    Publisher: Penguin Random House
    Parent Company: Bertelsmann

    Paperback Description:

    2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson’s most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson’s published works—Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God’s Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935)—along with a number of previously unpublished poems.Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson’s many achievements and his pioneering contributions to recording and celebrating the African American experience.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.



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