Talk:The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Not first poem publishe in the Crisis

I deleted the phrase that this poem was the first poem published in The Crisis, because it is factually false. Jessica Fausset, for example, published a poem ("Rondeau")as early as April 1912 (and hers was not the first). You can see in Google books the January 1920 issue, for example, and see that it contains the poem "Oriflamme" by Jessica Fausset and "Calling Dreams" by Georgia Douglas Johnson. There are other earlier issues of the Crisis in Google books which also contain poems.AnthroMimus (talk) 20:15, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

That line was misleading. It was not meant to imply that this poem by Hughes was the first poem The Crisis ever published, but that it was the first Hughes himself published in that journal. I've corrected it. --22:43, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

deleting last line "the negro that speaks of rivers"

I deleted the above quoted line from the poem, because it symply is not in the text. No other online source contains the line either. Bovine S. Enzo (talk) 12:43, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 19:16, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

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• Mother to Son
• Harlem (poem)
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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• ... that Langston Hughes's poems Mother to Son, Harlem, and The Negro Speaks of Rivers have been described as "anthems of black America"? Source: " “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Mother to Son,” and “Harlem” are anthems of black America." Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston 2/1/1902--5/22/1967. (2018). In S. D. Hatch (Ed.), Encyclopedia of African-American writing: five centuries of contribution : trials & triumphs of writers, poets, publications and organizations (3rd ed.). Grey House Publishing.

• Reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Distichia muscoides, Template:Did you know nominations/Ronald Graham, Template:Did you know nominations/Romano Floriani Mussolini
• Comment: Have three QPQs done, will list them shortly when I dig them up. "Negro Speaks of Rivers" is 5x expanded, others created. Could split to three individual noms if this is not interesting.

Created by Eddie891 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:03, 15 February 2021 (UTC).

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• Hi Eddie891, review follows:

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

• 5x expansion from 12 February; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; one minor comment, there's something weird with the formatting of the Miller citation: it's formatted as a web-cite (with "accessed on") but appears to be an offline source, from the date this precedes your work on the article; I didn't spot any overly close paraphrasing from the accessible sources;

Harlem (poem)

• New article created 10 February; well written and cited inline to reliable sources; spotcheck found no issues with overly close paraphrasing, quotations are appropriately attributed

Mother to Son

• New article created 9 February; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I found no issues with overly close paraphrasing in a random spotcheck on sources and quotations are appropriately attributed

Hook

• Is interesting enough for me, mentioned in all three articles; though if we are putting it in quotation marks on the main page it should be in quotation marks in the article; AGF on offline source (which looks reliable); three QPQs carried out

Looking good, just the quotation mark thing to clear up - Dumelow (talk) 08:00, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Dumelow, I've just removed that cite in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", as I can verify it with the other one and I don't understand the formatting either. I've expanded the relevant sentence in each article so that it includes the quote. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 16:39, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Looks fine to me - Dumelow (talk) 16:42, 15 February 2021 (UTC)