1. Claude McKay Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, West Indies, in 1889. He was educated by his older brother, who possessed a library of English novels, poetry, http://www.poets.org/cmcka/

2. Claude McKay Claude McKay was born in Jamaica on 15th September, 1890. He began writing poetry as a schoolboy. He worked as a policeman in Spanish Town and when he was http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTmckay.htm

Claude McKay Spartacus USA History British History Second World War ... Email Claude McKay was born in Jamaica on 15th September, 1890. He began writing poetry as a schoolboy. He worked as a policeman in Spanish Town and when he was twenty-two had his first volume of poems, Songs of Jamaica (1912) published. In 1912 McKay moved to the United States where he attended Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and Kansas State University . He continued to write poetry and in 1918 his work was praised by both Frank Harris and Max Eastman . The following year, his poem, If We Must Die , was published in Eastman's journal, The Liberator Frank Harris encouraged McKay to obtain writing experience in England. In 1919 McKay travelled to England where he met George Bernard Shaw who introduced him to influential left-wing figures in journalism. This included Sylvia Pankhurst , who recruited him to write for her trade union journal

3. Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Claude McKay Claude McKay is regarded as one of the first significant writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, he arrived in the United States in 1912 at the http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/mckay.html

Home Timeline Exhibition For Teachers Resources Claude McKay poet, novelist, short story writer photo by James L. Allen Claude McKay is regarded as one of the first significant writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, he arrived in the United States in 1912 at the age of 21 and had already gained recognition as a poet with his book Songs of Jamaica, published in 1911. He attended Tuskegee Institute and Kansas State University, then traveled to New York and participated in the literary movements there, both in Harlem and in Greenwich Village. His sonnet, "If We Must Die," is his most popular poem. He earned his living as a porter on the railroad and was a resident of Harlem. His book of poems, Harlem Shadows, published in 1922, was a precursor to the Harlem Renaissance. He also became associate editor of The Liberator, a socialist magazine of art and literature. Working closely with Max Eastman, he traveled to Moscow in 1923 in sympathy with the Bolshevik Revolution and became a sort of national hero there. Other books by Claude McKay include Banjo, Harlem: Negro Metropolis

4. Claude McKay Claude McKay s. The Tropics in New York. Harlem Shadows. AMERICA. If We Must Die. The Barrier. back to. Snally Gaster s African American Phat Library http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry/mckay_claude.html

Claude McKay's The Tropics in New York Harlem Shadows AMERICA If We Must Die ... The Barrier back to Snally Gaster's African American Phat Library Experience Not enough poems here? Email me your favorite works of the masters (no amateurs please). CONTACT The Tropics in New York Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs, Set in the window, bringing memories Of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills, And dewy dawna, and mystical skies In benediction over nun-like hills. My eyes grew dim, and I could no more gaze; A wave of longing through my body swept, And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept. Harlem Shadows I hear the halting footsteps of a lass In Negro Harlem when the night lets fall Its veil. I see the shapes of girls who pass To bend and barter at desire's call. Ah, little dark girls who in slippered feet Go prowling through the night from street to street Through the long night until the silver break Of day the little gray feet know no rest;

5. Claude McKay --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Claude McKay Jamaicanborn poet and novelist whose Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular novel written by an http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049758/Claude-McKay

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6. Claude McKay Claude McKay (18901948). From Harlem Shadows (1922). America; Wild May; In Bondage; Enslaved; I Shall Return; My Mother (I and II); Africa; On a Primitive http://www.sonnets.org/mckay.htm

Claude McKay (1890-1948) From Harlem Shadows America Wild May In Bondage ... I Shall Return My Mother ( I and II Africa On a Primitive Canoe To Winter ... Poetry The Snow Fairy ( I and II La Paloma In London One Year After ( I and II Thirst Futility Through Agony ( I and II America Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth! Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect against her hate. Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. Yet as a rebel fronts a king in state, I stand within her walls with not a shred Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer. Darkly I gaze into the days ahead, And see her might and granite wonders there, Beneath the touch of Time's unerring hand, Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand. Wild May Aleta mentions in her tender letters, Among a chain of quaint and touching things, That you are feeble, weighted down with fetters, And given to strange deeds and mutterings. No longer without trace or thought of fear

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Claude McKay From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Claude McKay September 15 ... May 22 ) was a Jamaican writer and communist and part of the Harlem Renaissance edit Sourced The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night. After the Winter , l. 3-4 The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet, A chafing savage, down the decent street; And passion rends my vitals as I pass, Where boldly shines your shuttered door of glass. The White House , l. 5-8 Oh, I must keep my heart inviolate Against the potent poison of your hate. The White House , l. 13-14 If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! If We Must Die , l. 5-8 Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth! America , l. 1-4 The wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys, and even the girls, Devoured her with their eager, passionate gaze; But looking at her falsely-smiling face

8. Claude McKay - Britannica Concise McKay, Claude Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular novel written by an American black to that time. http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9371668/Claude-McKay

document.writeln(AAMB1); McKay, Claude Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article Claude McKay born Sept. 15, 1890, Jamaica, British West Indies died May 22, 1948, Chicago, Ill., U.S. Jamaican-born U.S. poet and novelist. He published two volumes of Jamaican dialect verse before moving to the U.S. in 1912. With the publication of the poetry volumes Spring in New Hampshire (1920) and Harlem Shadows (1922), he emerged as the first and most militant voice of the Harlem Renaissance . An advocate of civil rights and racial solidarity, in his writings he searched among the common people for a distinctive black identity. His Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular novel by an American black to that time. He lived abroad in various countries from 1922 to 1934. document.writeln(AAMB2); Images and Media: More on "Claude McKay" from Britannica Concise Fauset, Jessie Redmon - U.S. novelist, critic, poet, and editor. Harlem Renaissance - A blossoming (c. 1918-37) of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, centred in Harlem in New York City. More on "Claude McKay" from the 32 Volume McKay, Claude

9. Claude McKay Claude McKay Born 15Sep-1890 Birthplace Sunnyville, Clarendon, Jamaica Father Thomas McKay (peasant) Wife Eulalie Lewars (m. 1914) http://www.nndb.com/people/517/000114175/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Claude McKay Born: 15-Sep Birthplace: Sunnyville, Clarendon, Jamaica Died: 22-May Location of death: Chicago, IL Cause of death: Heart Failure Gender: Male Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute Occupation: Novelist, Poet Nationality: Jamaica Executive summary: Home to Harlem Father: Thomas McKay (peasant) Wife: Eulalie Lewars (m. 1914) University: Tuskegee Institute (1912) University: Kansas State Teachers College (1912-14) Naturalized US Citizen Converted to Catholicism Author of books: Songs of Jamaica , poetry) Constab Ballads , poetry) Spring in New Hampshire , poetry) Harlem Shadows , poetry) Home to Harlem , novel) Banjo , novel) Gingertown , short stories) Banana Bottom , novel) A Long Way from Home , memoir) Harlem: Negro Metropolis , nonfiction) Selected Poems , poetry, posthumous) Do you know something we don't? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

10. Claude McKay - Poems, Biography, Quotes Free collection of all Claude McKay Poems and Biography. See the best poems and poetry by Claude McKay. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/claude_mckay

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11. Claude McKay: Harlem Renaissance Poet And Novelist Meet the young novelist from Jamaica who upset WEB DuBois. http://africanamericanlit.suite101.com/article.cfm/claude_mckay

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12. Claude McKay@Everything2.com Claude McKay was one of the most prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance. His poem If We Must Die was one of the first of that era to initiate the http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Claude Mckay

13. Claude McKay www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/mckay/mckay.htm Similar pages claude mckay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaclaude mckay (September 15, 1889 1 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and communist. He was part of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote three novels Home http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/mckay/mckay.htm

Claude McKay (1889-1948) Chronology McKay's Life Bibliography On "If We Must Die" ... External Links Prepared and Compiled by William Maxwell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Return to Modern American Poetry Home Return to Poets Index

14. Poets' Corner - Claude McKay - Harlem Shadows The Poems of claude mckay. by claude mckay. New York Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. Edited for the Web by Nelson Miller, 1999 http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/mckay00.html

P.C. Home Page Recent Additions Harlem Shadows The Poems of Claude McKay by Claude McKay New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922 Edited for the Web by Nelson Miller, 1999 - Contents - Introduction by the Editor The Easter Flower To One Coming North America Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table ... Through Agony The Editor wishes to espress his appreciation to Ms. Mary Mears for her generosity in providing her copy of Harlem Shadows for transcription, which made this edition possible. NM Introduction by Nelson Miller I: Life Festus Claudius McKay was born September 15, 1889, in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. Interested in poetry from his childhood, he published two volumes, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads , in 1912. Both volumes were largely in Jamaican dialect and celebrated the lives of the poor. In the same year, he left for the United States to study agronomy. After two years he left college and traveled to New York, first to start a restaurant (which soon failed), then to hold a series of odd jobs. During this time, he continued to write poetry, but moved from the use of dialect to standard English. From 1917 to 1919 a large number of his poems were published, particularly in the left-wing journal Liberator In late 1919, he traveled to England where he stayed for a year. While there, he produced a small volume of poetry

15. Heath Anthology Of American LiteratureClaude McKay - Author Page Wayne Cooper, claude mckay Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance, 1996 Tyrone Tillery, claude mckay A Black Poet s Struggle for Identity, 1994 http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/mck

Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Galleries Access Author Profile Pages by: Fifth Edition Table of Contents Fourth Edition Table of Contents Concise Edition Table of Contents Authors by Name ... Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fifth Edition Paul Lauter, General Editor Claude McKay Of the many gifted writers who contributed to the rich literary legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, Claude McKay, a Jamaican immigrant, was clearly the most militant. McKay’s most famous poem, “If We Must Die,” an eloquent and provocative sonnet, was inspired by the violent race riots that erupted in Chicago and other cities in 1919. In other deeply moving, carefully crafted poems, McKay voices his outrage at the treatment of blacks in a racist society. The poem “The Lynching,” for example, is a chilling indictment against the hatred and vigilantism which cost many black Americans their lives in the 1920s and 1930s. However, the social protest verse upon which McKay’s reputation as a poet ultimately rests represents only a small portion of his approximately two hundred published poems. Born in the Clarendon Hills of Jamaica, McKay began writing poetry in childhood. He published two books of dialect verse in 1912. In recognition of this achievement, the Jamaican Institute of Arts and Sciences awarded McKay a medal and a stipend that allowed him to study agriculture briefly at Tuskegee Institute and later at Kansas State University (1912–14). McKay left Kansas State in 1914 to pursue a writing career in New York City, where he became involved with the socialist movement and wrote for radical journals like Max Eastman’s

16. PAL: Claude McKay (1890-1948) Cooper, Wayne F. claude mckay Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance A Biography. NY Schocken Books, 1990. PS 3525 .A24785 Z63 http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/mckay.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 9: Claude McKay (1890-1948) Modern American Poetry: CM Photo: The Baroness with CM Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present ... Home Page Source: The Academy of American Poets Primary Works Two books of dialect verse Songs of Jamaica Constab Ballads Novels Home to Harlem Banjo Gingertown Banana Bottom Poetry Collections Spring in New Hampshire Harlem Shadows Maxwell, William J. ed. Complete Poems: Claude McKay. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2004. Autobiography A Long Way From Home Sociological Study Harlem: Negro Metropolis Selected Bibliography 1980-Present Cooper, Wayne F. Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance: A Biography . NY: Schocken Books, 1990. PS 3525 .A24785 Z63 Egar, Emmanuel E. The Poetics of Rage: Wole Soyinka, Jean Toomer, and Claude McKay. Lanham: UP of America, 2005. Gosciak, Josh. The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians.

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Poem Hunter .com Poet: Claude McKay - All poems of Claude McKay 1/27/2008 6:09:56 AM Home Poets Poems Lyrics ... SEARCH Claude McKay Free Poetry E-Book: 79 poems of Claude McKay File Size: 355k File Format: Acrobat Reader To download the eBook right-Click on the title and select "Save Target As". Biography Poems Quotations Comments ... Stats Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, West Indies. He was educated by his older brother, who possessed a library of English novels, poetry, and scientific texts. At the age of twenty, McKay published a book of verse called Songs of Jamaica, recording his impressions of black life in Jamaica in dialect. .. .. more >> Poems Search in the poems of Claude McKay Click the title of the poem you'd like read. Page: A Memory of June A Prayer A Red Flower Absence ... Flower of Love Page: Quotations "The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night." "Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!"

18. Claude McKay Jamaican poet, claude mckay, became a prominent poet during the Harlem Renaissance who expressed his observations of black life in his poetry. http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/claudemckay/Claude_McKay.htm

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19. Literature And Life: The Givens Collection One of these writers was Jamaican émigré poet Claud mckay. Title Harlem shadows the poems of claude mckay / claude mckay http://www.pbs.org/ktca/litandlife/chapters/chapter2main.html

Hughes reading Hurston reading McKay reading The Harlem Renaissance ... Text transcripts of our RealVideo expert interviews are also available. Du Bois, W. E. B.: The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois, W. E. B.: The Freedmen's Bureau ... The Langston Hughes Review BEGINNINGS Many factors contributed to the emergence of African-American art during the period following WWI. Social, economic, political, and demographic changes contributed to the rise Harlem, and other African-American urban centers. During this time, W.E.B. DuBois and other leaders cultivated black art and black activism side by side. DuBois was the first African American to receive a Ph.D from Harvard. His ground-breaking book "The Souls of Black Folk," was a prophetic look at the turn of the century. FEATURED WRITING DuBois was also part of the Niagara movement that created the NAACP, the first national Civil Rights organization. One of the NAACP’s efforts was publishing periodicals like "The Crisis" and the children’s magazine, "The Brownie Book." These magazines provided a venue for emerging African-American writers. These young artists, in turn, painted literary pictures of a maturing Black America. One of these writers was Jamaican émigré poet Claud McKay. In the midst of lynching and race riots that scarred America following World War I, MacKay’s poem "If we must Die" was a poignant and powerful wakeup call.

20. American Passages - Unit 10. Rhythms In Poetry: Authors Born in Jamaica, claude mckay came to America to study agriculture at Tuskegee Institute, a historically black university founded by Booker T. Washington. http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit10/authors-5.html

Select a Different Unit 1. Native Voices 2. Exploring Borderlands 3. Utopian Promise 4. Spirit of Nationalism 5. Masculine Heroes 6. Gothic Undercurrents 7. Slavery and Freedom 8. Regional Realism 9. Social Realism 10. Rhythms in Poetry 11. Modernist Portraits 12. Migrant Struggle 13. Southern Renaissance 14. Becoming Visible 15. Poetry of Liberation 16. Search for Identity Rhythms in Poetry Unit Overview Using the Video ... Activities Authors: Claude McKay (1889-1948) ] Underwood and Underwood, Famous New York African American Soldiers Return Home (1917), courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. Claude McKay Activities This link leads to artifacts, teaching tips and discussion questions for this author. Born in Jamaica, Claude McKay came to America to study agriculture at Tuskegee Institute, a historically black university founded by Booker T. Washington. After two years, he transferred to Kansas State College, but soon realized that his talents were better suited to writing than farming. In 1917, McKay arrived in Greenwich Village, where he sought out the company of artists and activists, both white and black. In fact, his ability to straddle both worlds easily became a source of envy and respect among his contemporaries. In those opening years of the Harlem Renaissance, McKay's poetry helped attract attention to the city and to the struggle for a new African American literary voice. While the earlier poetry that he had written in Jamaica used dialect, his writing in America relied on traditional poetic forms. His electrifying sonnet "If We Must Die" made him famous; it also worked as a call to arms for African Americans living through the

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