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James Weldon Johnson 1871–1938: Critical Review by Countee Cullen

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SOURCE: "And the Walls Came Tumblin' Down," in The Bookman (New York), Vol. LXVI, No. 2, October, 1927, pp. 221-22.

In the following review, Cullen favorably assesses the poems of Johnson's God's Trombones.

And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns; and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

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