Born Countee Leroy Porter on 30 May 1903, Countee Cullen was orphaned while still a child and subsequently adopted, though the relationship was never made legal, by Frederick Asbury Cullen. While an air of mystery--apparently maintained by the poet...

The American Countee Cullen (1903-1946) was one of the most widely heralded African American poets of the Harlem renaissance, though he was less concerned with social and political problems than were his African American contemporaries. He is noted for...

If any single writer can be said to represent the New Negro Renaissance, that extraordinary flowering of Afro-American arts centered in Harlem in the 1920s, that writer is almost certainly Countee Cullen. Paradoxically, he was urbane but at the same...

Among the most conservative of the Harlem Renaissance poets, Harvard educated Countee Cullen exploded onto the New York literary scene with the publication of Color (1925) and solidified his reputation with Copper Sun (1927) and The Black Christ and...

Born May 30, 1903 Most sources say Louisville, Kentucky Died January 9, 1946 New York, New York American poet, novelist, and dramatist Countee...

Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903–January 9, 1946) was an African-American Romantic poet and an active participant in the Harlem...

MY SOUL'S HIGH SONG; The Collected Writings Of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance Edited by Gerald Early Doubleday. 618 pp. $27.95; paperback $14.95 AMONG THE black American writers who rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, none was...

July 2002 marked the sesquicentennial of Frederick Douglass' magnificently searing oration "What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July?" Looking around him in 1852, Douglass declared that it was not enough to praise the Founding Fathers and laud their high principles. ...

In the following excerpt, Shucard argues that Cullen naturally created race dominated poetry despite his intellectual intent to place artistry above all other concerns.

In the following excerpt, Smylie analyzes Cullen's poem "The Black Christ."

In the following excerpt. Tuttleton attempts to demonstrate that Cullen's college experience was a source of considerable influence on his poetry

Examines the life of Countee Cullen, an American poet in the Harlem Renaissance. Describes this era, the 1920s artistic movement which produced the first large body of work in the United States written by African American. Explores Cullen's body of work.