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	Claude McKay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McKay was shocked by the intense racism he encountered in Charleston, South Carolina.
		McKay became involved with a group of Black radicals who were unhappy both with Marcus Garvey's nationalism and the middle class reformist NAACP.
		McKay used to frequent a soldier's club in Drury Lane and the International Socialist Club in Shoreditch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claude_McKay (1031 words)

	Claude McKay - MSN Encarta
		One of the prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance in fl literature of the 1920s, he was known for his poems and novels of fl life, first in Jamaica (Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads, both 1912) and later in the United States.
		McKay's first novel, Home to Harlem (1928), a vivid picture of a fl soldier's life in New York City after his return from World War I, was a popular success.
		McKay's poetry and prose were notable for his use of traditional forms to express unfamiliar ideas and themes, many of which related to the fl experience in the United States.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570096/Claude_McKay.html (233 words)

	Claude McKay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Claude McKay (September 15 1889 - May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and communist.
		McKay became involved with a group of Black radicals who were unhappy both with Marcus Garvey 's nationalism and the middle class reformist NAACP.
		McKay used to frequent a soldier's club in Drury Lane and the International Socialist Club in Shorditch.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Claude_McKay.html (947 words)

	Claude McKay
		Claude McKay was born to farmers in Jamaica in 1890.
		McKay began writing poetry at age 10, and he had published two volumes of dialectic verse before immigrating to the United States in 1912.
		McKay's life was marked by poverty and illness, the former of which he blamed on racial discrimination in the US.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~schonberg/e314s04/literature/tess_mckay1.htm (317 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Claude McKay
		Festus Claudius McKay was born September 15, 1889, in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica.
		McKay's arrival in America had brought him for the first time into contact with the violent, aggressive racism which characterized America at the time.
		Unaccustomed to this kind of prejudice, McKay was shocked and outraged at what he saw and experienced, and embodied his feelings in the best-known of his poems, "If We Must Die," as well as several others: "America," "The White City," "In Bondage," "Enslaved," "Outcast," and "The Lynching," among others.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Claude-McKay (2479 words)

	Claude McKay's Life
		McKay, Claude (15 Sept. 1890-22 May 1948), poet, novelist, and journalist, was born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, the son of Thomas Francis McKay and Hannah Ann Elizabeth Edwards, farmers.
		The youngest of eleven children, McKay was sent at an early age to live with his oldest brother, a schoolteacher, so that he could be given the best education available.
		McKay had moved to Morocco in 1930, but his financial situation forced him to return to the United States in 1934.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/mckay/life.htm (1191 words)

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		This approach allows students to relate to McKay on a purely human level and prepares them for the discomforting racial themes that dominate some of the other poems.
		"The Lynching," a moving expression of McKay's outrage against the senseless killings of fls that marked the early decades of this century, depicts Christ as the victim of the lynching.
		Since McKay was influenced by important British poets such as Wordsworth, Shelley, and Donne, it is useful to compare and contrast his work with that of English romantic and metaphysical poets.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/mckay.html (539 words)

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		It was here that Claude published one of his most famous poems If We Must Die during the "Red Summer[For more, click on this link]", EHandler: no quick summary.
		McKay became involved with a group of Black radicals who were unhappy both with Marcus Garvey[For more info, click on this link]'s nationalism and the middle class reformist NAACP NAACP quick summary:
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	The Academy of American Poets - Claude McKay
		Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, West Indies, in 1889.
		During the twenties, McKay developed an interest in Communism and travelled to Russia and then to France where he met Edna St. Vincent Millay and Sinclair Lewis.
		McKay's viewpoints and poetic achievements in the earlier part of the twentieth century set the tone for the Harlem Renaissance and gained the deep respect of younger fl poets of the time, including Langston Hughes.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/25 (297 words)

	Claude McKay / Complete Poems
		McKay eludes easy definition, which is why this complete anthology, vividly introduced and carefully annotated by William J. Maxwell, is at once necessary and rewarding.
		Claude McKay (1889-1948) is the author of the influential novels Banjo, Home to Harlem, and Banana Bottom.
		McKay is a hugely important figure in the development of Caribbean and African American poetry, and bringing his poems together in one place does an invaluable service to readers of all backgrounds.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f03/mckay.html (634 words)

	Claude McKay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McKay's next volume, Constab Ballads came out the same year and were based on his experience as a police officer inJamaica.
		McKay became involved with a group of Black radicals who were unhappy both with Marcus Garvey 's nationalism and the middle class reformist NAACP.These included the African Caribbeans Cyril Briggs, Richard B. Moore and Wilfrid Domingo.
		McKay used to frequent a soldier's club in Drury Lane andthe International Socialist Club in Shorditch.
	www.therfcc.org /claude-mckay-12923.html (664 words)

	American Passages - Unit 10. Rhythms in Poetry: Authors
		In the poem, McKay urges African Americans to "face the murderous, cowardly pack" and to "nobly die" while "fighting back." These images of fls rising up against their white oppressors gave voice to the frustration and rage of the African American people at a time when racism seemed to be spiraling out of control.
		Although McKay is often credited with helping to spark the Harlem Renaissance, he took great pains to distance himself, both physically and philosophically, from the movement in its heyday.
		McKay returned to America, but not until 1934, by which time the Harlem Renaissance had ended, its writers dispersed and the fire of the movement dimmed.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit10/authors-5.html (488 words)

	The nostalgia of Claude McKay - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		McKay was simply an extraordinary poet and novelist and a great son of Jamaica.
		Born on September 15, 1889, in Sunny Ville, Clarendon, McKay was the youngest of eleven children of Thomas McKay and Hannah Ann Edwards.
		Later, McKay dabbled with cabinet-making and served a short stint with the Jamaican Constabulary in Spanish Town before leaving Jamaica in 1912 to attend Tuskegee Institute in Alabama where he hoped to study agronomy.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20041116T220000-0500_69718_OBS_THE_NOSTALGIA_OF_CLAUDE_MCKAY.asp (1066 words)

	Claude McKay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Claude McKay, born in Jamica, arrived in the United States when he was 21 years old in 1912.
		McKay was a poet and novelist and had piblished two volumes of Jamaican dialect verse before moving to the U.S. He had gained recognition as a poet with his book Songs of Jamaica in 1911.
		McKay attended Tuskegee Institute and Kansas state University, then traveled to New York and participated in the literary movements in Harlem and in Greenwich Village.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~princes8/CMcKay.html (435 words)

	Claude McKay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McKay's next volume Constab Ballads came out the same year and based on his experience as a police in Jamaica.
		Despite doing well in exams in 1914 McKay decided he did not want be an agronomist and went to New York where he married his childhood sweetheart Lewars.
		McKay became involved with a group of radicals who were unhappy both with Marcus Garvey 's nationalism and the middle class reformist NAACP.
	www.freeglossary.com /Claude_McKay (765 words)

	Geometry.Net - Authors: Mckay Claude
		Claude McKay, Education on Claude McKay was born in Jamaica on 15th September,1890.
		Claude McKay was born in Jamica and became.
		Claude McKay 18901948 Poet and novelist, born in Jamaica, McKaycame to the United States in 1912.
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	CLAUDE MCKAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Claude McKay was an important poet and novelist identified with the revival of Black literature, art and music in the United States known as the Harlem Renaissance.
		McKay was born in Claredon, Jamaica, the son of poor peasants of pure African descent.
		As a fl, McKay was useful to the Soviets to demonstrate their commitment to racial equality, and he was lionised, being lavishly entertained and exhibited on platforms with the most famous revolutionary leaders.
	www.silvertorch.com /arts/mckay.htm (724 words)

	Claude McKay
		McKay's parents, Thomas Francis McKay and Hannah Ann McKay, were prosperous farmers by the standards of Sunny Ville, Jamaica, the town where McKay was born.
		McKay's interest in Roman Catholicism grew significantly during the 1940s, and he officially joined the Catholic church in 1944.
		McKay's final books, the autobiographical A Long Way from Home (1937) and the sociological Harlem: Negro Metropolis (1940), were in large part attacks on the Communist Party of the United States of America His Selected Poems (1953) was published posthumously.
	caribbeanhalloffame.tripod.com /articlewriter.htm (689 words)

	Claude McKay
		One of the most distinguished poets of our time, Claude McKay (1890-1948) was born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica, British West Indies (15 September), the son of Thomas Francis and Ann Elizabeth (Edwards) McKay.
		Claude was the last of eleven children born to Thomas and Ann (Hannah, in some texts) McKay.
		In 1913, McKay came to the United States and enrolled in Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute with the intent to study agriculture.
	www.nathanielturner.com /claudemckay.htm (649 words)

	Claude McKay - Caribbean Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bio: Born Festus Claudius McKay the youngest of 11 children to farmers Thomas Francis McKay and Hannah Ann Elizabeth Edwards in Sunny Ville, Clarendon, Jamaica McKay was sent to live with his oldest brother, a schoolteacher.
		McKay was an avid reader as a child and began writing poetry at the age of 10.
		At the age of 17, after a brief career in the constabulary, McKay was encouraged by Walter Jekyll, an Englishman living in Jamaica to write verse in the Jamaican dialect.
	www.afiwi.com /caribbean/halloffame/Claude_McKay.html (363 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner : Pieces of the Past: Claude McKay - Jamaica's Poet Laureate 1890-1948
		Festus Claudius McKay was born in Clarendon in 1890 to Thomas and Hannah McKay, farmers.
		As a teenager, McKay was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker after the trade school he was supposed to attend was destroyed by the 1907 earthquake.
		McKay had a hard time adjusting to urban life in Kingston and many themes found in his later work the opposition of urban and rural life, class differences and the concept of exile - first appeared in "The Constab Ballads," a work inspired by his time with the JCF.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /pages/history/story0039.htm (1831 words)

	WowEssays.com - Claude Mckay`S “If We Must Die”
		Poetry– Claude McKay “If We Must Die” One of the most influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance was Jamaican born Claude McKay, who was a political activist, a novelist, an essayist and a poet.
		Claude McKay was aware of how to keep his name consistently in mainstream culture by writing for that audience.
		McKay used the poetry technique of the sonnet by using the 13 lines and 1 last line in the end.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ae3/tmw118.shtml (1273 words)

	Claude McKay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Claude McKay, internationally acclaimed writer and poet, was born in the year 1889 in James Hill, Clarendon.
		In 1948 McKay died in Chicago and was buried in New York.
		In 1977 the Government on behalf of the people of Jamaica posthumously awarded Claude McKay the Order of Jamaica in respect and admiration for his great contribution to literature.
	www.jnht.com /clarendo/cmckay.html (166 words)

	Poetry: Claude McKay
		The Modern American Poetry site provides biographical information about McKay (including a chronology), a bibliography of his works, discussions of selected works, essays he wrote about race in the United States, the text of some of his poems, and links to related sites.
		Born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica, McKay had already completed two volumes of poetry before coming to the United States in 1912 at the age of twenty-three (the two volumes earned him awards, which paid his way).
		McKay wrote in a letter to a friend: "[T]o have a religion is very much like falling in love with a woman.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/mckay.htm (333 words)

	LitKicks: Claude McKay
		Claude McKay lived in Jamaica until he was 23.
		Claude McKay spent time in the early 1920's flirting with Communism and other leftwing politics, but ultimately gave it up to wander Europe.
		Claude McKay never felt at home with these authors, so he was never a member of their group.
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	Poet: Claude McKay - All poems of Claude McKay
		Poet: Claude McKay - All poems of Claude McKay
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