371 Robert Hayden and the Nature of Freedom | PLUS Literary Zombies (with Scott G. Bruce)
The History of Literature
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Hayden's Poetic Diene
Robert hayden is of that school from the mid century, roughly contemporaneous with awden and langton hughes. He was influenced by stephen vincent benet who was a hugely popular po t in america when he was first getting started as a poet. In addition to those influences we have already mentioned, county cullen, paul lawrence dunbar and some other harlem renaissance poets including john keats. Let's let robert hayden himself read it for us. This is him delivering his poem. Frederick douglas. iam ted to read those winter sundays which i absolutely love.
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