ENG 380Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Countee Cullen, Muriel Rukeyser, Langston Hughes
13 Sep 2017
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Major jackson in 2013 preface to countee cullen"s collected works. James weldon jones in his 1922 preface to the book of american negro. 3 poems that came out of the harlem renaissance: Adrienne rich: in many ways muriel rukeyser was beyond her time and seems, at the edge of the twenty-first century, to have grasped resources we are only now beginning to reach for. Poetry is at every instant concerned with meaning. The poet of the kind of poetry for which i hope knows that consciousness and creation are linked, and cannot be postponed. The scientist of the science i hope for knows that too. Life of symbols science doesn"t teach us the true nature of things; science teaches us the true nature of the relationship between things. It may be objected that the whole notion is a mirror of the mind. And a mirror of the emotions a total response.
