The Debt
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Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872–1906
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Subjects Crime & Punishment, Living, Disappointment & Failure, Sorrow & Grieving, Social Commentaries
Poetic Terms Couplet
Biography
Paul Laurence Dunbar is widely acknowledged as the first important black poet in American literature. He enjoyed his greatest popularity in the early twentieth century following the publication of dialectic verse in collections such as Majors and Minors and Lyrics of Lowly Life. But the dialectic poems constitute only a small portion of Dunbar's canon, which is replete with novels, short stories, essays, and many poems in . . .
Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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SUBJECT Crime & Punishment, Living, Disappointment & Failure, Sorrow & Grieving, Social Commentaries
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Poetic Terms Couplet
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