The Claude McKay Page

( 1890-1948 )

Major Works
Songs of Jamaica ( 1912 ). Poems.
Constab Ballads ( 1912 ). Poems.
Spring in New Hampshire ( 1920 ). Poems. Published in London.
Harlem Shadows ( 1922 ). Poems. On Line from Poet's Corner.
Negroes in America ( 1923 ). A Marxist treatment. Reprinted by Associated Faculty Press, 1979.
Home to Harlem ( 1929 ). His first and most widely-read novel. Reprinted by Northeastern, 1987, with a new foreword by Wayne F. Cooper.
Banjo ( 1929 ). A novel. Reprinted by Harcourt Brace, 1970.
Gingertown ( 1932 ). Short stories. Reprinted by Ayer, 1972.
Banana Bottom ( 1933 ). A novel. Reprinted by Harcourt Brace, 1974.
A Long Way from Home ( 1937 ). Autobiographical. Reprinted by Harcourt Brace, 1989.
Harlem: Negro Metropolis ( 1940 ). By this time he has repudiated Marxism. Reprinted by Harcourt Brace, 19722.
Selected Poems ( 1953 ). Introduction by John Dewey and biographical note by Max Eastman. Selected by McKay and published posthumously. Reprinted by Bookman, 1963 and by Harcourt Brace in 1981.
The Passion of Claude McKay: Selected Poetry and Prose, 1912-1948. Schocken, 1973.
My Green Hills of Jamaica ( 1979 ). Autobiographical.
Eight McKay Poems from U. of Toronto

About McKay
Wayne F. Cooper, Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance. Louisiana State, 1987.
An Introduction to Claude McKay from Poet's Corner .
Claude McKay from Modern American Poetry.

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