Biography EssayEven though Robert Hayden himself considered it a secondary consideration for the evaluation of his work, he is still known primarily as a black poet, and the subjects of many of his po...
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Through his meticulously crafted and highly thoughtful poetry, Robert Hayden (1913-1980) often explored human dilemmas in the context of race. He was a college professor throughout his career, doing m...
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Even though Robert Hayden himself considered it an irrelevant consideration for the evaluation of his work, he is still known primarily as a black poet, and the subjects of many of his poems make use ...
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Robert Hayden faced in the mid twentieth century the dilemma that Countee Cullen, one of his literary mentors, had faced during the Harlem Renaissance. Hayden and Cullen were both black, both poets, b...
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Critical Essay by Robert G. O'meally
Hayden is a poet of many voices, using varieties of ironic black folk speech, and a spare, ebullient poetic diction, to grip and chill his readers. He draw...
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Critical Essay by Reginald Gibbons
[American Journal] is characteristically spare and lyrical. Hayden chooses his words with more care than most poets use, and there is also a kind of formal ghost ho...
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Critical Essay by Michael S. Harper
Mr. Hayden's precision and economy is ubiquitous in ["American Journal"]; his use of slang, nicknames and the common parlance of the street is...
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Robert Earl Hayden
Robert E(arl) Hayden
Critical Essay by Robert G. O'meally
