Poems by Claude McKay
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Songs of Jamaica (1912) Preface What Italian is to Latin, that in regard to English is the negro variant thereof. It shortens, softens, rejects the harder sounds alike of consonants and vowels; I might almost say, refines. In its soft tones we have an expression of the languorous sweetness of the South: it is a feminine version of masculine English; pre-eminently a language of love, as all will feel who, setting prejudice aside, will allow the charmingly naïve love-songs of this volume to make t
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| Subject | N/A |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 64 |
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| License | Public Domain |
Chapters
- De cowitch[6] under which we hab fe ‘toop,
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Nuttin’ good as cockstone soup
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920)
- Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920)
- Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920)
- Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920)
- Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920)
- Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920)
- Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920)
- Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920)
- Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)