SOURCE: "James Weldon Johnson and the Pastoral Tradition," in The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, Fall, 1975, pp. 417-21.
In the following essay, Redding investigates Johnson's use of dialect and the "Southern Negro idiom" in his poetry.
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