Every collection Dunbar published, from Lyrics of Lowly Life to Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow, with William Dean Howells’s introduction to the first. Here are the standard-English lyrics such as We Wear the Mask and Sympathy alongside the dialect poems of Southern cabin, cornfield and church that made his name, written by the son of formerly enslaved parents in Dayton, Ohio.
The whole of a poet who wrote both inside and against the expectations of his age. Download the free EPUB.