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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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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Robert Earl Hayden
Robert E(arl) Hayden
