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Extractions: var isReferenceAnswers = true; BodyLoad('s'); On this page Library African American Literature: Home Library African American Literature Braithwaite , William Stanley (1878–1962), poet, editor, publisher, anthologist , and influential critic who strived to reanimate and draw attention to American verse in the early twentieth century. Born and raised in Boston , William Stanley Braithwaite began life in a prosperous, cultured home but, on the death of his father, was forced to quit school at the age of twelve to help support his family. Lacking formal instruction, Braithwaite rigorously educated himself. He eventually found work as a typesetter in a Boston printing firm. Setting poems by John Keats and William Wordsworth, Braithwaite developed a love of lyric poetry that inspired his own writing. He began to publish poems and reviews in the Boston Journal and Transcript and eventually produced his first book of poetry, Lyrics of Life and Love , in 1904, followed by The House of Falling Leaves (1908). In 1906, Braithwaite started his critical career in earnest with a regular feature in the Boston
