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Robert Hayden (1913 – 1980)

African-American poet; poetry consultant to the Library of Congress

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Criticism about Robert Hayden

Answering “The Waste Land”: Robert Hayden and the Rise of the African American Poetic Sequence

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_33/ai_58056046

“Issues discussed concern the influence of African-American poet Robert Hayden, focusing on Hayden’s critical and political reception.”

Contains: Criticism

Author: Brian Conniff

From: African American Review Fall 1999

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Robert Hayden’s Epic of Community

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_3_23/ai_54925297

This review of Hayden’s writing career looks particularly at the role played by his unpublished work The Black Spear.

Contains: Criticism

Author: Benjamin Friedlander

From: MELUS Fall, 1998

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Biographical sites about Robert Hayden

Robert Hayden

http://wps.ablongman.com/long_kennedy_lfpd_9/0,9130,1490011-,00.html

This page from the companion web site to XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia’s “Introduction to Poetry” text includes a biography, critical overview, and bibliography of the poet.

Contains: Sketch, Bibliography, Commentary

Author: XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia

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Robert Hayden

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/196

Provides a brief biographical sketch of the poet, and the full text of several poems.

Contains: Sketch, Bibliography, Webliography, Pictures

Author: Academy of American Poets

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Other sites about Robert Hayden

Re-centering: The Turning of the Tide and Robert Hayden

http://www.fglaysher.com/Recentering.htm

Author: Glaysher, Frederick

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Last Updated Apr 29, 2013