Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1911-1922): A Digital CollectionMain MenuIntroduction: About this SiteAmardeep Singh, Lehigh UniversityConstab Ballads (1912) -- Digital EditionClaude McKay's "Constab Ballads"Songs of Jamaica (1912): Digital EditionBook of poetry by Claude McKay. Preface by Walter Jekyll.Early Uncollected Poetry (1911-1922)Uncollected Poems by Claude McKay published in Jamaican, British, and American magazinesWorkers Dreadnought PoetrySpring in New Hampshire (1920): Digital EditionHarlem Shadows (1922): Digital EditionHarlem Shadows Digital EditionSelected Poems of Claude McKay (1953)Approximating the Table of Contents of "Selected Poems of Claude McKay"Criticism and Contextual EssaysWorks CitedWorks Cited for "Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1912-1922)"TEI/XML Editions (in progress/coming soon)Links to TEI versions of these textsAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12016-11-11T14:51:59-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table5Harlem Shadows (1922), Cambridge Magazine (Summer 1920), Spring in New Hampshire (1921)plain2016-11-15T13:00:58-05:00Body, Colonization, Cultural Appropriation, Music, Queerness, Race, Race Relations, Same Sex Desire, SexualityAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12016-11-12T20:16:25-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1A Memory of June4Harlem Shadows (1922), Cambridge Magazine (Summer 1920), Spring in New Hampshire (1921)plain2017-08-07T16:36:30-04:001922Birds, Body, Color, Love, Memory, Music, Nature, Race, Same Sex Desire, Seasonal, Sex, Sexuality, Soul, TransformationAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12017-06-19T11:59:30-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Quashie to Buccra4Poem by Claude McKay. From "Songs of Jamaica" (1912)plain2017-07-06T12:35:42-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12017-06-24T09:45:10-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Cudjoe Fresh From De Lecture3Poem by Claude McKay. From "Songs of Jamaica" (1912)plain2017-07-06T17:38:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12016-11-11T18:21:50-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Exhortation: Summer 19193Harlem Shadows (1922), Spring in New Hampshire (1921)plain2016-11-14T22:31:32-05:001922, 1921Africa, Age, Birth, Body, Dawn, Death, Diaspora, Exile, Gender, Nature, Motherland, Night, Political Consciousness, Race, Seasons, StruggleAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12017-06-19T16:51:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1King Banana3Poem by Claude McKay. From "Songs of Jamaica" (1912)plain2017-07-06T12:25:04-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12016-11-12T20:27:08-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1One Year After3Harlem Shadows (1922)plain2017-08-07T17:00:30-04:001922Body, Identity, Interracial, Interracial Relationships, Love, Race, Race Relations, Sex, Sexuality, Struggle, Time, WaterAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12016-11-12T02:11:25-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Rest in Peace3Harlem Shadows (1922), Cambridge Magazine (Summer 1920), Spring in New Hampshire (1921)plain2016-11-14T22:12:00-05:001922Death, Loss, City, Race, Sexuality, DesireAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12016-11-11T17:34:27-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1A Roman Holiday3The Liberator (July 1919); Workers Dreadnought (September 6, 1919)plain2020-09-15T16:07:42-04:00Race, War, America, Europe, LynchingAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12017-06-19T15:31:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Whe' Fe Do?3Poem by Claude McKay. From "Songs of Jamaica" (1912)plain2017-07-06T13:27:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12016-11-12T23:32:10-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1To the White Fiends2Pearson's Magazine, September 1918. The Liberator, September 1919plain2016-11-12T23:34:31-05:001918, 1919Race, Africa, Violence Soul, LynchingAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12016-11-12T01:56:03-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1When Dawn Comes to the City2Harlem Shadows (1922), Cambridge Magazine (Summer 1920), Spring in New Hampshire (1921)plain2016-11-14T22:16:21-05:001922Animals, Displacement, Home, Jamaica, Heritage, Identity, Landscape, Longing, Migration, Modernization, Nature, New York, Pastoral, Race, City,Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12017-07-10T17:44:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Gordon to the Oppressed Natives2Poem by Claude McKay. Published in Daily Gleaner May 3 1912plain2017-07-10T17:45:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12016-11-11T15:34:05-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Harlem Shadows2Harlem Shadowsplain2016-11-14T12:08:21-05:00Body, City, Harlem, New York, Nightlife, Poverty, Prostitution, Race, Sex, Sexuality, UrbanAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12017-06-24T09:35:52-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Hard Times2Poem by Claude McKay. From "Songs of Jamaica" (1912)plain2017-06-24T09:39:27-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12017-06-29T11:51:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1My Native Land, My Home2Poem by Claude McKay. From "Songs of Jamaica" (1912)plain2017-06-29T11:53:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12016-11-11T15:15:08-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1The Barrier2Harlem Shadows (1922), Cambridge Magazine (Summer 1920), Spring in New Hampshire (1921)plain2016-11-14T22:15:31-05:00Nature, Longing, Love, Same Sex Desire, RaceAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12016-11-11T15:25:38-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1The City's Love1Harlem Shadowsplain2016-11-11T15:25:38-05:00American Identity, Black, Displacement, Harlem, Identity, New York, Passion, Race, Transnational, UrbanAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12017-07-10T17:08:58-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1The Daily Gleaner1Poem by Claude McKay. Published in Daily Gleaner December 16, 1911plain2017-07-10T17:08:58-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1