1. Countee Cullen and the Harlem Renaissance
... Goetz 780) Cullen became known as a lyric poet and that an English poet mostly influenced his work named John Keats. Most of his best work deals with themes more known or recognized by black Americans without dwelling on dialect or stereotype. He saw all art as universal and believed that it ... this time he was able to produce a novel, One Way to Heaven, which was produced in 1932 and two years later there was The Medea and several other poems. Cullen believed that in order to be a great poet you had to master and accept standard poetic forms, tropes, ... European traditions. (Estell 8...
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