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Document Type
Book
Description
Majors and Minors reflects the dual styles of Dunbar's poetry. The "major" poems were works written in standard English, while the "minor" poems were his dialect poems. However, it was the "minors" section which caught the attention of reviewer William Dean Howells, editor of Harper's Weekly. Howells' review of the book singled out and praised Dunbar's use of dialect, bringing national attention to those works to the detriment of his poetry in standard verse.
Publication Date
1895
Publisher
Hadley & Hadley, Printers and Binders
City
Toledo
Keywords
African Americans--Poetry; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
Disciplines
American Literature | Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority | Poetry
Repository Citation
Dunbar , P. L. (1895). Majors and Minors. Toledo, Ohio: Hadley & Hadley, Printers and Binders.
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