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ROBERT HAYDEN'S DETROIT BLUES ELEGIES.
- Source :
- Callaloo; Winter2001, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p200, 27p
- Publication Year :
- 2001
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Abstract
- Presents a critical analysis of Robert Hayden's poetry. Application of the principles of the blues and the elegy to the concrete circumstances of Afro-Americans in Hayden's neighborhood, Detroit's Paradise Valley; Experiment with the eight-bar blues stanza and its ABCB ballad rhyme-scheme which Langston Hughes had employed in 'Sylvester's Dying Bed.'
- Subjects :
- LITERARY criticism
POETRY (Literary form)
CRITICISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01612492
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Callaloo
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 5342638
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2001.0057