Claude McKay

McKay, Claude

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Festus Claudius McKay (September 15, 1890 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet, and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, McKay first traveled to the United States to attend college, and encountered W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk which stimulated McKay’s interest in political involvement. He moved to New York City in 1914 and in 1919 wrote "If We Must Die", one of his best known works, a widely reprinted sonnet responding to the wave of white-on-black race riots and lynchings following the conclusion of the First World War.

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Harlem Shadows
Representative edition published 2022
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Spring in New Hampshire and other poems
Representative edition published 2021
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Songs of Jamaica
Representative edition published 2021
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Romance in Marseille
Representative edition published 2020
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Amiable with big teeth
Representative edition published 2018
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A long way from home
Representative edition published 2007
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Banana Bottom
Representative edition published 2005
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Representative edition published 2005
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Complete poems
Representative edition published 2004
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Banjo
Representative edition published 2003
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Pieces of a man
Representative edition published 2000
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Home to Harlem
Representative edition published 2000
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Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Representative edition published 2000
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Selected poems of Claude McKay
Representative edition published 1999
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Harlem Glory
Representative edition published 1990
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Dialect Poetry of Claude McKay (2 Volumes in 1)
Representative edition published 1987
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Representative edition published 1985
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The Negroes in America
Representative edition published 1979
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The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
Representative edition published 1976
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The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Representative edition published 1973
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The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970
Representative edition published 1970
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Constab ballads
Representative edition published 1912
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Selected Poems
Representative edition published 2023
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If We Must Die
Representative edition published 2022
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