African American poets -- Biography
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Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), by Phillis Wheatley and Margaretta Matilda Odell- Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave (Boston: G. W. Light; New York: Moore and Payne, 1834), by B. B. Thatcher (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself (Hillsborough, NC: D. Heartt, 1845), by George Moses Horton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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Filed under: African American poets -- Interviews- Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Elizabeth Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
- An American Man of Letters (magazine reprint; 1909), by Collier Cobb
- The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself (Hillsborough, NC: D. Heartt, 1845), by George Moses Horton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- An American Man of Letters (magazine reprint; 1909), by Collier Cobb
- The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2012), by Vera M. Kutzinski (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2012), by Vera M. Kutzinski (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), by Phillis Wheatley and Margaretta Matilda Odell
- Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave (Boston: G. W. Light; New York: Moore and Payne, 1834), by B. B. Thatcher (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Genealogy of the Wheatley or Wheatleigh Family: A History of the Family in England and America (Farmington, NH: E. H. Thomas, 1902), by Hannibal P. Wheatley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry (Bibliographica America v2; includes Heartman's bibliography of Phillis Wheatley; New York: C. F. Heartman, 1916), by Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, contrib. by Charles F. Heartman
- The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by April C. E. Langley (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, With Notices of His Life and Genius (2 volumes; New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850), by Edgar Allan Poe, contrib. by Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, and Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thomas Kennedy: The Poet Who Loved Liberty and Led a Struggle for Religious Tolerance (c2021), by Dan Guzy (page images with commentary at WHILBR)
- Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Emory Holloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Days with Walt Whitman; With Some Notes on His Life and Work (London: G. Allen, 1906), by Edward Carpenter
- John Greenleaf Whittier: A Sketch of His Life, With Selected Poems, by Bliss Perry and John Greenleaf Whittier (HTML at Michigan)
- Letters of Life (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at archive.org)
- Sidney Lanier, by Edwin Mims (Gutenberg text)
- Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: D. McKay, 1883), by Richard Maurice Bucke
- Walt Whitman in Mickle Street (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921), by Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, contrib. by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Walt Whitman; To Which is Added, English Critics on Walt Whitman (Glasgow: Wilson and McCormick, 1884), by Richard Maurice Bucke, ed. by Edward Dowden (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Worlds and I (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman (2 volumes; New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1910), by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Laura Stedman, and George M. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
- Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)
- Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1903), by F. V. N. Painter
- Some Reminiscences and Early Letters of Sidney Lanier (Macon, GA: J. W. Burke Co., 1907), by George Herbert Clarke, contrib. by Harry Stillwell Edwards and Sidney Lanier (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)
- Frost-Bite and Frost-Bark: Robert Frost at Michigan (Ann Arbor: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, c1999), by Robert M. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Life in Poetry (New York: Bookman Associates, c1959), by Stanton A. Coblentz (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
- A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
- Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
- Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
- Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
- The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
- Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
- Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
- Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
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