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George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Dr. Joshua Bennett (Edited by), Jesse McCarthy (Edited by)
Minor Notes, Volume 1
Poems by a Slave; Visions of the Dusk; and Bronze: A Book of VerseSummary
Minor Notes Vol. 1 features the work of three poets. Published in 1837, Poems by a Slave is one of the lesser-known works by George Moses Horton (1798-1883), once popularly known as the 'black bard of North Carolina.' Visions of the Dusk (1915) is an American prose poem known for its formal innovation by Fenton Johnson, a poet, essayist, editor and educator from Chicago. Georgia Douglas Johnson was the most widely read black woman poet in the US during the first three decades of the 20th century. Bronze: A Book of Verse (1922) was introduced with a foreword by W. E. B. Du Bois.