Poet, critic, scholar, teacher, folklorist, and consummate yarn-spinner, Sterling Brown has been among the most influential and, until recently, one of the most neglected black American writers of the...
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The importance of Sterling A. Brown in Afro-American literature and culture rests on his position as an innovative poet, a folklorist, and a pioneer critic. He was among the first to identify the foun...
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Since his retirement in 1969 from Howard University's English department, Sterling Allen Brown has become known among colleagues and associates as "the dean" of black American critics, an epithet firs...
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