Author:Claude McKay
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Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay
Works[edit]
Poetry[edit]
Collections[edit]
- Songs of Jamaica (1912)
- Constab Ballads (1912)
- Spring in New Hampshire, and Other Poems (1920)
- America (1921)
- Harlem Shadows (1922)
- The Selected Poems of Claude McKay (1953)
Individual poems[edit]
- "If We Must Die" (1919)
- "Travail" (1920)
- "After the Winter"
- In The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson
- "The Lynching"
- "If We Must Die"
- "To the White Fiends"
- "The Harlem Dancer"
- "Harlem Shadows"
- "After the Winter"
- "Spring in New Hampshire"
- "The Tired Worker"
- "The Barrier"
- "To O. E. A."
- "Flame-Heart"
- "Two-an'-Six"
Fiction[edit]
- Home to Harlem (1928)
- Banjo (1929)
- Banana Bottom (1933)
- Gingertown (1932)
Non Fiction[edit]
Articles[edit]
- “Socialism and the Negro”, 31 January 31 1920 , p.1-2
- “The Capitalist Way: Lettow-Vorbeck”, 7 February 1920, p.6
- “A Black Man Replies”, 24 April 1920, p.2
- “Review of Creative Revolution”, 24 July 1920, p.5
- “Review of First Principles of Working Class Education”, 11 September, 1920, p.5
- “Communists and Local Councils of Action”, 25 September, 1920, p.6
- “The Revolution in Currency”, 2 October, 1920, p.
- “The Yellow Peril and the Dockers”, 16 October 1920
- “How Black Sees Green and Red”, Vol. 4 No. 6, June 1921
Other[edit]
- A Long Way from Home (1937)
- Harlem: Negro Metropolis (1940)
- My Green Hills of Jamaica (1946)
Works about McKay[edit]
- "Claude McKay" in Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.
This author died in 1948, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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