The Poetry of Slavery

This volume collects the most important works of poetry generated by English and North American slavery, mixing poetry by the major Anglo-American Romantic poets with curious, and sometimes brilliant verse by a range of now forgotten literary figures.

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Collects the most important works of poetry generated by English and North American slavery. Mixing poetry by the major Anglo-American Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson) with curious, and sometimes brilliant verse by a range of now forgotten literary figures, the anthology is designed to aid students and teachers address the Anglo-American cultural inheritance of slavery.