Paul Lawrence Dunbar by Gene Andrew Jarrett Robert Macfarlane class and celebrity in surreal

class and celebrity in surreal

Girling (Fitzcarraldo)

she grew up in the States but lived in Britain for most of her adult life

the editors masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose

Paul Lawrence Dunbar by Gene Andrew Jarrett Robert Macfarlane class and celebrity in surrealA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the poet laureate of his race hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a caged