Real and Imagined Worlds by Charles Scruggs - 9781496860392

University Press of Mississippi

Real and Imagined WorldsClaude McKay's Poetry and Prose\nAuthor(s): Charles Scruggs\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496860392, 978-1496860392\nSynopsis\nClaude McKay [tel] was a versatile Jamaican American writer and poet and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In addition to two autobiographies and a documentary study of Harlem, McKay wrote poetry, novels (Home to Harlem, Banana Bottom, Banjo, Harlem Glory, Amiable with Big Teeththe latter portraying a dystopia that foreshadows Orwell), the short story collection Gingertown, and a screenplay disguised as a novel, Romance in Marseille. \n\nMcKay was deeply influenced by various literary and artistic sources that shaped his poetry and prose. As an artist, he saw himself as a \""classicist,\"" but his favorite poet was John Keats, the acclaimed Romantic. The books he read in Walter Jekylls library were primarily Victorian and had.