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 ...
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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 ...
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Melvin B(eaunorus) Tolson
