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Cane (Norton Critical Editions)
by Jean Toomer
Originally published in 1923, Cane is a literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. The growing interest in African-American literature that began in the 1960's led to the rediscovery of earlier African-American writers, one of whom is Jean Toomer, author of Cane . It is an innovative literary work—part drama, part poetry, part fiction. "Backgrounds" contains generous excerpts from Jean Toomer's ... (more)
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Cane
by Jean Toomer
"Cane has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it." —Alice Walker A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame... (more)
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Poets And Poems (Blooms's Literary Criticism 20th Anniversary Collection)
by Harold Bloom
Bloom considers poets Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridege, William Butler Yeats, and many others.