{"title":"Paul Laurence Dunbar","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet and novelist, among the first Black writers to reach a national audience. His dialect and standard-English verse, and the poem Sympathy, influenced generations of writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"selected-poems-penguin-classics","title":"Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDialect poems by one of the nineteenth century's most talented African American lyricists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Laurence Dunbar was “the most promising young colored man” in nineteenth-century America, according to Frederick Douglass, and subsequently one of the most controversial. His plantation lyrics, written while he was an elevator boy in Ohio, established Dunbar as the premier writer of dialect poetry and garnered him international recognition. More than a vernacular lyricist, Dunbar was also a master of classical poetic forms, who helped demonstrate to post–Civil War America that literary genius did not reside solely in artists of European descent. William Dean Howells called Dunbar’s dialect poems “evidence of the essential unity of the human race, which does not think or feel black in one and white in another, but humanly in all.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Laurence Dunbar \u0026 Herbert Martin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47944753873124,"sku":"9780142437827","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0750\/0850\/8132\/files\/9780142437827.jpg?v=1771799078"},{"product_id":"the-complete-poems-of-paul-laurence-dunbar","title":"The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar","description":"\u003cp\u003eEre sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes, Which all the day with ceaseless care have sought The magic gold which from the seeker flies; Ere dreams put on the gown and cap of thought, And make the waking world a world of lies,— Of lies most palpable, uncouth, forlorn, That say life's full of aches and tears and sighs,— Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Laurence Dunbar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47944753840356,"sku":"9781514673706","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0750\/0850\/8132\/files\/9781514673706.jpg?v=1771799078"}],"url":"https:\/\/triumviratebooks.com\/collections\/paul-laurence-dunbar.oembed","provider":"Triumvirate Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}