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countee cullen
Title: countee cullen
Category: Literature / English
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countee cullen
Countee Cullen
By: John doe
Countee Cullen (Porter) was considered by many to be the most
talented of
the Harlem Renaissance poets. Cullen was a novelist and a playwright, but
he was known by most as a poet. He was born on March 30, 1903 in New
York. Cullen was adopted at some point between the time of his birth and
1918. By 1921, he changed his last name to Cullen, from his adopted
mothers last name. He attended …showed first 75 words of 382 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 382 total…his wisdom and education at
New York university, where he joined an all white fraternity called Phi Beta
Kappa Honors. Cullen was awarded the Wittier Bynner Poetry Prize for
his expressive culture oriented poetry. During his college career he
created the book Color for which he won the Harmon Foundations first
gold medal for literature.
His poems had a direct relationship to the Harlem Renaissance, his
poems either included ideological aspects and culture aspects.
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