Fifty Years & Other Poems
Chapter 1 of 60 Introduction by Brander Matthews
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- Running time
- 2 h 12 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Corey Matlak, Larry Wilson, Lynda Marie Neilson, McKinnie Lee Sizemore, Nemo, Phil Schempf
Chapters
About this recording
This is a collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson was an early civil rights activist, and this theme is the basis for many of the poems in this collection as well. This volume also contains an introduction by Brander Matthews.The first half of this volume contains poems in classical style and form, the second half of this collection is a set of "Jingles & Croons". - Summary by Carolin