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Complete Poems

By James Weldon Johnson, Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Introduction)
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By James Weldon Johnson, Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Introduction)
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2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works—Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935)—along with a number of previously unpublished poems.

Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, pr...

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PoetryFictionLiteratureFiction & Literature ClassicsAmerican Poetry20th Century American PoetryAfrican American PoetryAmerican Fiction & Literature ClassicsAmerican poetry->20th centuryAmerican poetry->African American authors->20th century