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March 28, 2026Common Knowledge0 citations

Exploring Black Poets and American Lyricism Before Modernism

Before Modernism: Inventing the American Lyric

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Analysis reveals the contributions of Black poets to American lyric, suggesting a reevaluation of literary history.

Key Points

  • To explore the role of Black poets in shaping American lyric poetry during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
  • Close readings of works by Black poets like Phillis Wheatley Peters and George Moses Horton.
  • Analysis of white poets' appropriation of Black lyrical themes and forms.
  • Examination of the racialization of poetics in early American literature.
  • Identified the impact of Black poets on the invention of modern American lyric forms.
  • Revealed the appropriation of Black poetic expressions by white poets.
  • Unearthed the complex dynamics between Black and white poetics in their historical context.

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Marcela Sulak (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c770888bbfbc51511e0977https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-11984213
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