Item Summary

"Countee Cullen is already established as one of the vivid figures standing out from the younger group of modern poets. His first book, 'Color, ' attracted wide critical attention and praise. In 'Copper Sun' he has moved steadily on. Full of rich imagery, the subdued gaiety and naïveté of his race, and the sophistication of the modern intellectual, 'Copper Sun' presents many facets to the reader of poetry who demands something more than lyric prettiness. This new collection contains a number of poems which have been in great demand since their appearances in various magazines. It includes such distinguished poems as 'Confession, ' 'From the Dark Tower, ' 'Uncle Jim, ' 'The Litany of the Dark Peoples' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'"--Dust jack inside flap

Descriptive Information

Title
Copper sun / by Countee Cullen ; with decorations by Charles Cullen.
Call Number
N-003474
3702.6.328
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcmp48sq73c
Publisher
New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1927.
Language
English
Date Created
1927
Extent
xi, 89 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. Color
From the dark tower
Threnody for a brown girl
Confession
Uncle Jim
Colored blues singer
Colors
The litany of the dark people
2. The deep in love
Pity the deep in love
One day we played a game
Timid lover
Nocturne
Words to my love
En passant
Variations of a theme
A song of sour grapes
In memoriam
Lament
If love be staunch
The spark
Song of the rejected lover
To one who was cruel
Sonnet to a scornful lady
The love tree
3. At Cambridge
The wind bloweth where it listeth
Thoughts in a zoo
Two thoughts of death
The poet puts his heart to school
Love's way
Portrait of a lover
An old story
To lovers of earth : fair warning
4. Varia
In spite of death
Cor cordium
Lines to my father
Protest
An epitaph
Scandal and gossip
Youth sings a song of rosebuds
Hunger
Lines to our elders
The poet
More than a fool's song
And when I think
Advice to a beauty
Ultimatum
Lines written in Jerusalem
On the Mediterranean Sea
Millennial
At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
To Endymion
Epilogue
5. Juvenilia
Open door
Disenchantment
Leaves
Song
The touch
A poem once significant, now happily not
Under the mistletoe.
Notes
Princeton copy 1 In original illustrated dust jacket.

Discovery Information

Subject
Poetry
American poetry—20th century
American poetry—African American authors
novels
poetry
Fiction
Novels
Poems

Physical Characteristics

File Count
114

Institutional Information

Collection
Public Domain Digitization Initiative
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