Sence You Went Away
Source: The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (1997)
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Poet James Weldon Johnson 1871–1938
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
SCHOOL / PERIOD Harlem Renaissance
Subjects Time & Brevity, Relationships, Living, Love, Infatuation & Crushes, Heartache & Loss
Biography
James Weldon Johnson distinguished himself equally as a man of letters and as a civil rights leader in the early decades of the twentieth century. A talented poet and novelist, Johnson is credited with bringing a new standard of artistry and realism to black literature in such works as The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man and God's Trombones. His pioneering studies of black poetry, music, and theater in the 1920s also helped . . .
Poems by James Weldon Johnson
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SUBJECT Time & Brevity, Relationships, Living, Love, Infatuation & Crushes, Heartache & Loss
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
SCHOOL / PERIOD Harlem Renaissance
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