This course is an intensive study of African American poetry from its beginning to 1940, with special attention viven to poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Poets to be studied include Terry, Hammon, Wheatley, A. A. Whitman, Horton, Braithwaite, J.W. Johnson, Horne, Fenton Johnson, George Douglas Johnson, McKay, Cullen, Cuney, and Hughes.