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See also:DUNBAR, See also:PAUL LAURENCE (1872–1906) , See also:American author, of See also:negro descent, was See also:born in See also:Dayton, See also:Ohio, on the 27th of See also:June 1872. He graduated (1891) from the Dayton high school, had a varied experience as elevator boy, mechanic and journalist, and in 1897—1898 held a position on the See also:staff of the Library of See also:Congress, resigning in See also:December 1898 to devote himself to See also:literary See also:work. He died of See also:consumption at his See also:home in Dayton on the 8th of See also:February 1906. His See also:poetry was brought to the See also:attention of American readers by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Dean See also:Howells, who wrote an appreciative introduction to his Lyrics of Lowly See also:Life (1896). Subsequently Dunbar published eleven other volumes of See also:verse, three novels and five collections of See also:short stories. Some of his short stories and sketches, especially those dealing with the American negro, are charming; they are far See also:superior to his novels, which See also:deal with scenes in which the author is not so much at home. His most enduring work, however, is his poetry. Some of this is in literary See also:English, but the best is in the See also:dialect of his See also:people. In it he has preserved much of their very temperament and outlook on life, usually with truth and freshness of feeling, See also:united with a happy choice of See also:language and muchlyrical See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and sweetness, and often with rare See also:humour and pathos. These poems of the See also:soil are a distinct contribution to American literature, and entitle the author to be called pre-eminently the poet of his See also:race in See also:America.
See Life and See also:Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Naperville, See also:Ill., 1907), with a See also:biography by L. K. Wiggins.
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