Claude McKay

Writer

1889-09-15

Books by Claude McKay

The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
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A long way from home
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
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Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
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Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.
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If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.
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Your door is shut against my tightened face, And I am sharp as steel with discontent; But I possess the courage and the grace To bear my anger proudly and unbent. The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet.
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