Harlem Shadows
: An Electronic Edition
"Eli Edwards."
1
Eli Edwards is the pen-name of a young negro who makes his living as a waiter in a New York club.
Citation
"Eli Edwards."
Seven Arts
(October, 1917).
Contents:
Harlem Shadows
(1922)
Introduction
Author's Word
The Easter Flower
To One Coming North
America
Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table
The Tropics in New York
Flame Heart
Home Thoughts
On Broadway
The Barrier
Adolescence
Homing Swallows
The City's Love
North and South
Wild May
The Plateau
After the Winter
The Wild Goat
Harlem Shadows
The White City
The Spanish Needle
My Mother
In Bondage
December, 1919
Heritage
When I Have Passed Away
Enslaved
I Shall Return
Morning Joy
Africa
On a Primitive Canoe
Winter in the Country
To Winter
Spring in New Hampshire
On the Road
The Harlem Dancer
Dawn in New York
The Tired Worker
Outcast
I Know My Soul
Birds of Prey
The Castaways
Exhortation: Summer, 1919
The Lynching
Baptism
If We Must Die
Subway Wind
The Night Fire
Poetry
To a Poet
A Prayer
When Dawn Comes to the City
O Word I Love to Sing
Absence
Summer Morn in New Hampshire
Rest in Peace
A Red Flower
Courage
To O. E. A.
Romance
Flower of Love
The Snow Fairy
La Paloma in London
A Memory of June
Flirtation
Tormented
Polarity
One Year After
French Leave
Jasmines
Commemoration
Memorial
Thirst
Futility
Through Agony
Additional Poems by Claude McKay
Invocation
To the White Fiends
The Negro Dancers
A Capitalist at Dinner
The Little Peoples
A Roman Holiday
The Conqueror
Is it Worth While?
Contemporary Reviews
William Braithwaite, from "Some Contemporary Poets of the Negro Race" (1919)
Unsigned Review of
Spring in New Hampshire
(1920)
Hubert Harrison, "Poetry of Claude McKay" [Review of
Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems
] (1921)
Louis Untermeyer, "The Negro as Artist" (1922)
Rex Hunter, Review of "Harlem Shadows" (1922)
Eric D. Walrond, "Book Notes" [Review of
Harlem Shadows
] (1922)
Edith Talbot, "Spring Poets Tune Up Their Lyres"
New York Times
(1922)
James Weldon Johnson, "A Real Poet" [Review of
Harlem Shadows
] (1922)
George W. Douglas, "Effect of Freedom on the Literary Art of Negroes" (1922)
Mary White Ovington, Book Chat [Review of
Harlem Shadows
] (1922)
Hodge Kirnon, "Claude McKay's
Harlem Shadows
: An Appreciation" (1922)
Jessie Fauset, Excerpt from "As to Books" [Review of
Harlem Shadows
] (1922)
Walter White, "The Negro's Contribution" (1922)
Robert Littell, "Negro Poets" (
New Republic
) (1922)
Edith Talbot, Review of
Harlem Shadows
[
Southern Workman
] (1922)
Clement Wood, "A Man's Song" (1922)
Georgia Johnson, Review of
Harlem Shadows
[
The Messenger
] (1923)
Supplementary Texts
Notes on Names [Biographical Note on McKay from
Seven Arts
Magazine, 1917]
Claude McKay Describes His Own Life (
Pearson's Magazine
, 1918)
Claude McKay [Note in
The Liberator
]
Cyril V. Briggs, "The Capital and Chicago Race Riots"
"If We Must Die" [
Messenger Editorial
]
Letter from the African Methodist Episcopal Church Commission on After-War Problems, Read into Congressional Record
Introduction to "Poems: Claude McKay,"
Cambridge Magazine
Preface to
Spring in New Hampshire
James Weldon Johnson's Comments on McKay from the preface to
Book of American Negro Poetry
Biography of McKay from
The Book of American Negro Poetry
Lines Dedicated to Claude McKay
Excerpt from Kerlin,
Negro Poets and Their Poems
"Protest Poems." Excerpt from Kerlin,
Negro Poets and Their Poems
From the Record of The House of Representatives "Investigation of Communist Propaganda" (1930)