SOURCE: "A Weapon of My Song: The Poetry of James Weldon Johnson," in Phylon, Vol. 32, No. 4, Winter, 1971, pp. 374-82.
In the following essay, Long surveys Johnson 's poetic works, assessing his evolving notion of "the function of the poet."
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