Description
This selection of 74 poems covers the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753-1784) to the twentieth century works of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. There are also works by George Moses Horton, Frances Ellen, Watkins Harper, Alberry Alston Whitman, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Daniel Webster Davis, Mary Weston Fordham, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many more.Lexile Measure:/ NPCopyright 1997, 82 pages, 5 x 8 inches, paperback.