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Showing posts with label Paul Laurence Dunbar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Laurence Dunbar. Show all posts
May 7, 2014

Dunbar: the ability to manage dialect

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You ask my opinion about Negro dialect in literature. Well, I frankly believe in everyone following his bent. If it be so that one has a ...
December 20, 2013

Dunbar, the Wright Brothers, and the Tattler

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Paul Laurence Dunbar issued the first edition of the Dayton Tattler in December 1890. The venture was put forth with the help of an asso...
March 15, 2013

Dunbar: Howells has done me irrevocable harm

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Paul Laurence Dunbar had reason both to be thankful to editor / critic William Dean Howells and to be upset with him. Howells had used ...
October 19, 2012

Dunbar: give up reading entirely

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At the turn of the century, Paul Laurence Dunbar was at the height of his fame . His poetry and prose had attracted first a regional then...
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June 16, 2012

Dunbar graduates: The wind is fair

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The graduation ceremony for Central High School in Dayton, Ohio was held in the Dayton Opera House on June 16, 1891. Included in the day...
February 11, 2012

Dunbar: an immortality in this world

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When Paul Laurence Dunbar died in Dayton, Ohio in 1906 , several gathered for a memorial service. One who could not attend was a friend of ...
February 10, 2012

Silas Jackson: the hollowness of his life

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Unbeknownst to him, it was just one day more than six years before his death that Paul Laurence Dunbar published "Silas Jackson...
December 31, 2011

To give full time to his literary work

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The records at the Library of Congress are simple in recording the loss of one of its most talented employees: " Paul Laurence Dunba...
October 11, 2011

Dunbar: it means a regular income

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"I have landed the position at Washington," wrote Paul Laurence Dunbar to a friend on October 11, 1897. "It is a small one, ...
July 13, 2011

Dunbar: to be a worthy singer

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Paul Laurence Dunbar was an intelligent young man in high school, where he was a member of the literary society, the debate team, and the...
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June 8, 2011

Dunbar: a martyr's lifeless clay

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The Dayton Herald in Ohio published "Our Martyred Soldiers" on June 8, 1888, a poem written by a 16-year old named Paul Laurence...
March 1, 2011

Dunbar: I remember the occasion well

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On March 1, 1901, Paul Laurence Dunbar received a letter inviting him to take part in the Inaugural Parade for William McKinley in honor o...
February 12, 2011

Dunbar: I love the dear old ballads best

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Late in 1905, a close friend of Paul Laurence Dunbar died suddenly. The Ohio-born poet felt that his own days were numbered and, though his...
June 27, 2010

Dunbar: A song is but a little thing

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Paul Laurence Dunbar earned recognition as America's first professional African-American literary man. His first volume of poetry, Oak...
February 9, 2010

Death of Paul Laurence Dunbar

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At the age of 33, Paul Laurence Dunbar died on February 9, 1906. He was born the son of a former slave and an escaped slave in Kentucky. ...