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Wright, James

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Wright, James, 1927–80, American poet, b. Ohio. He studied at Kenyon College and the Univ. of Washington. The master of an elegant, beautifully controlled style, his early poems contained surrealistic juxtapositions. Later works abandoned willed complexity in favor of a plainer diction. His works include The Green Wall (1957), Shall We Gather at the River? (1968), To a Blossoming Pear Tree (1977), and the posthumous The Shape of Light (1986).

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See his collected prose, ed. A. Wright (1982).
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Brown, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ann Petry in a section that variously echoes DuBois' contention that "all art is propaganda and ever must be.
African American Literary Criticism: 1773 to 2000 by Fetrow, Fred M. / MELUS
I always wonder how to account for Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, W.
Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America by Barthelemy, Anthony G. / African American Review
Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum, Harvey Curtis Webster's review in the September 1, 1962 issue of The Nation of The Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, and A Street in Bronzeville views the same tendency in a more favorable light: "In her ability to see through the temporal, she equals Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, writers of fiction who accept Negro-ness as prizeable differentiation and a dilemma, [and] include it to transcend it.
On Gwendolyn Brooks: Reliant Contemplation by Shaw, Harry B. / African American Review
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