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One of the major American black poets of this century, Brooks was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in l950. Yet far less critical attention has focused on her work than on that of her peers. Melham traces the development of Brooks' poetry over four deca…

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories:…