Idle Moments Containing Emancipation and Other Poems (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Idle Moments Containing Emancipation and Other Poems

Much that is best in the American N egro is traditional. All that is worst is historical, and not of his writing.

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Excerpt from Idle Moments Containing Emancipation and Other Poems

A serious injustice is done an author when his friends and enemies fail to read his preface. I trust that my friends may at least do me the justice to read why I venture to send these poems forth to the public.

To attempt to write poetry is very generally considered an indisputable evidence of a mild form of insanity, and yet I presume to trust that such is not my case.

No man should trust himself before the public unless he has written something that the public ought to hear, or some thing that the public wants to hear, and he himself should not constitute that public.

As to the first, I dare not say; as to the second, many have so expressed themselves.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.