In this volume of poems about half are in the negro dialect, and show Mr. Dunbar at his best. The delicious languor, and warmth and melody of the negro songs, their unexpected turns of humor and ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar developed a love of stories during his early years. He wrote his first poem at age six and recited his original Easter Ode at age nine to the congregation of the Eaker Street ...

(ACME photo) Her mother was proud of the poems Gwendolyn started writing when she was 6. “You’re going to be the lady Paul Laurence Dunbar,” her mother would say, comparing Gwendolyn to a ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was born in 1872 to American ... is best known for writing in the unique Midwestern dialect and penning the poem “Little Orphant Annie” in 1885, which inspired the ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar ... of his second book of poetry, “Majors and Minors,” from the prominent Ohio-raised literary critic William Dean Howells. That review came with a mixed blessing. Howells’ praise ...

MASSILLON − Ohio-born poet Paul Laurence Dunbar will be in the spotlight on Feb. 23. Dunbar, a Dayton native, is legendary in the poetry community, hailed by event organizers as "your favorite ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity ... I know why the caged bird sings” – his poem ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died ... He turned the plantation tradition on its head by using dialect to not only offer critical social commentary, as in his poem “When Malindy ...

"Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask" is a documentary ... narrator: With a few prominent exceptions, Dunbar's dialect poems are today his best remembered and most often recited.