December, 1919
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Poet Claude McKay 1889–1948
SCHOOL / PERIOD Harlem Renaissance
Subjects Family & Ancestors, Relationships, Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Death
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
Biography
Festus Claudius McKay, better known as Claude McKay, was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a prominent literary movement of the 1920s. His work ranged from vernacular verse celebrating peasant life in Jamaica to fairly militant poems challenging white authority in America, and from generally straightforward tales of black life in both Jamaica and America to more philosophically ambitious fiction addressing . . .
Poems by Claude McKay
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SUBJECT Family & Ancestors, Relationships, Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Death
SCHOOL / PERIOD Harlem Renaissance
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
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