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Melvin B(eaunorus) Tolson | | Variant Name: |
Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, M. B. Tolson, Melvin B(eaunorus) Tolson | | Birth Date: |
February 6, 1898 | | Death Date: |
August 29, 1966 | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
African American | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of Melvin B(eaunorus) Tolson
3,739 words, approx. 13 pages
 With the publication of Libretto for the Republic of Liberia (1953) Melvin B. Tolson claimed a major role for Afro-American poets in the modernist literary revolution forged principally by such poets as Hart Crane, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William... summary from source:
Biography of Melvin B(eaunorus) Tolson
3,684 words, approx. 12 pages
In his introduction to Harlem Gallery (1965), Karl Shapiro called Melvin B. Tolson "a great poet ... living in our midst ... almost totally unknown, even by the literati." Mindful that Allen Tate, in his earlier introduction to Libretto for the... 
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 Melvin B. Tolson Information
770 words, approx. 3 pages
 Melvin Beaunorus Tolson (February 6, 1898–August 29, 1966) was an American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politician. His work concentrated on the experience of African Americans and includes several poetic histories. He was a...
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The Virginia Quarterly Review "Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson
04/01/2000: 174 words, approx. 1 pages "Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson, edited by Raymond Nelson. Tolson published a single volume of verse in each of the three decades between 1940 and 1969, but this new edition is the first to bring them all together along... summary from source:
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 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Aldon L. Nielsen
7,531 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Nielsen states that Tolson's works "are an assault upon Anglo-American modernism's territorial designs, but they have been little read."
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Critical Essay by Michael Bérubé
6,987 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Bérubé discusses Tolson's work in relation to African-American modernism.
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