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Gwendolyn Brooks
Title: Gwendolyn Brooks
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1070 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks-
A Critical Analysis of Her Work
Gwendolyn Brooks is the female poet who has been most responsive to changes in the black community, particularly in the community’s vision of itself. The first African American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize; she was considered one of America’s most distinguished poets well before the age of fifty. Known for her technical artistry, she has succeeded in forms as disparate as Italian terza rima …showed first 75 words of 1070 total…
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It is important to not that the direction of Brooks’s literary career shifted dramatically in the late 1960’s. While attending a black writers’ conference she was struck by the passion of the young poets. Before this happened, she had regarded herself as essentially a universalist, who happened to be black. After the conference, she shifted from writing about her poems about black people and life to writing for the black population.
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