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Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, West Indies. He was educated by his older brother, who possessed a library of English novels, poetry, and scientific texts. At the age of twenty, McKay published a book of verse called Songs of Jamaica, recording his impressions of black life in Jamaica in dialect. .. .. more >>

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1		A Memory of June
2		A Prayer
3		A Red Flower
4		Absence
5		Adolescence
6		Africa
7		After the Winter
8		Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table
9		America
10		Baptism
11		Birds of Prey
12		Commemoration
13		Courage
14		Dawn in New York
15		December, 1919
16		Enslaved
17		Exhortation: Summer 1919
18		Flame-Heart
19		Flirtation
20		Flower of Love

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"The shivering birds beneath the eaves
Have sheltered for the night."
Claude McKay (1889-1948), U.S.-Jamaican poet. After the Winter (l. 3-4). . . Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.

"Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!"
Claude McKay (1889-1948), U.S.-Jamaican poet. America (l. 1-4). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.

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Claude McKay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Claude McKay (September 15, 1889 [1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and communist in his early life, after his trip to the Soviet Union he found that ...
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Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Claude McKay
Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, West Indies, in 1889. He was educated by his older brother, who possessed a library of English novels, poetry, ...
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Claude McKay
Claude McKay (1889-1948). | Chronology | McKay's Life | Bibliography | On "If We Must Die" | On "The White City" | On "America" | On "The Tropics in New ...
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Claude McKay
Claude McKay was born in Jamaica on 15th September, 1890. He began writing poetry as a schoolboy. He worked as a policeman in Spanish Town and when he was ...
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