An Analysis of the Topic of 1941 Robert Hayden and Black-Skinned Epic (6090 words, 28 pages)
Asearly as 1941 Robert Hayden prepared himself for the task of writing a "black-skinnedepic," an ambition he formed after reading Stephen Vincent Benet's long Civil Warpoem, John Brown's Body. Interviewed in 1972, Hayden spoke of this ambition inthe following manner I've always been interested in Afro-American history, and when I ...
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