1. Jean Toomer (1897-1967) American Writer. (18971967) American writer. Jean Toomer was born Nathan Pinchback Toomer in Washington D.C. He wrote short stories like Bona and Paul and Withered Skin of Berries, the plays http://classiclit.about.com/od/toomerjean/Toomer_Jean.htm

zWASL=1 zGL='0';zGR='ca-about-radlink'; zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Education Classic Literature Classic Literature Search Classic Literature Filed In: A-to-Z Writers A-to-Z Writers T - Writers - Last Names (1897-1967) American writer. Jean Toomer was born Nathan Pinchback Toomer in Washington D.C. He wrote short stories like "Bona and Paul" and "Withered Skin of Berries," the plays "Natalie Mann" (1922) and "Balo" (1922), and many poems such as "Five Vignettes," "Skyline," "Poem in C," "Gum," "Banking Coal," and "The First American." Harlem Renaissance - Jean Toomer (1894-1967) "For many, the literary renaissance in Harlem began with the publication of Toomer's 'Cane'." Introduction to Cane "Cane, the book that provoked this comment, was published in 1923 after portions of it had appeared earlier in Broom, The Crisis, Double Dealer, Liberator, Little Review, Modern Review, Nomad, Prairie and S 4 N. But Cane and its author, let it be said at once, presented an enigma from the start-an enigma which has, in many ways, deepened in the years since its publication." zSB(3,3)

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3. Toomer, Jean Cane, The Wayward and the Seeking A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer, The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer, A Jean Toomer Reader Selected Unpublished Writings, Cane (A http://www.artistactoractress.com/author/t/toomer_jean.html

Toomer, Jean Average customer rating: Difficult (2.5 stars) Beautiful Conflicted and Lyrical A MUST-HAVE BOOK; BUY IT Truth through Words Cane Jean Toomer Manufacturer: Liveright Publishing Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: Quicksand and Passing (American Women Writers Series) The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (African American History (Penguin)) Their Eyes Were Watching God Nightwood Passing (Penguin Classics) ASIN: Customer Reviews: Difficult (2.5 stars) I write this review with the realization that it is likely to be unpopular, nevertheless, I found the book to be very trying. While I can appreciate the modernist approach which was employed years before its time, the experimental nature of the writing had my head spinning. The text itself is a mixed bag that includes not only prose, but poetry and drama as well. Toomer insisted on these pieces being put together to form a novel, but I cannot help but feel many of the inclusions would have faired better standing alone. In my particular reading experience, I found that many of the pieces do not interlock or even coincide, which produces a sort of start-and-stop reading ordeal. There is simply no fluidity in the text. Toomer was of mixed heritage, so the book is rife with ambivalence and a proverbial tug-of-war between "light and dark." It has been pointed out that Toomer was very much influenced by Picasso's cubism and worked to recreate this in his literature. As far as I know, Toomer and Gertrude Stein are the only two to have done this, and the effect is arrantly vertiginous in both cases.

4. The Jean Toomer Pages Biography, portraits of Toomer and his family, bibliography, three short stories and some poems. http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/toomer/jean-toomer.html

5. PAL: Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Study guide leads off a chapter on the Harlem Renaissance. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/toomer.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 9: Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present Study Questions MLA Style Citation of this Web Page ... Home Page Source: Modern American Poetry For many, the literary renaissance in Harlem began in 1923 with the publication of Toomer's Cane . It was hailed as a masterpiece, as a fresh voice from a very promising young writer. This publication also brought Toomer in contact with other black intellectuals. However, his spiritual quest took him away from race issues; he studied and converted to the spiritual thought of the Russian mystic Georgi Gurdjieff and spent his time lecturing on mystical doctrines. His racial ambivalence and involvement with mysticism could explain his inability to recapture the promise of Cane Primary Works Cane Essentials An Interpretation of Friends Worship The Flavor of Man The Wayward and the Seeking (collection), 1980.

6. Jean Toomer - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Jean Toomer (December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Toomer

Jean Toomer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Jean Toomer (December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance Contents Biography Archive Works See also ... edit Biography Toomer was born Nathan Pinchback Toomer in Washington, D.C. of mixed racial and ethnic descent ( Dutch French Native American African-American , Welsh, German, Jewish). His parents were Nathan Toomer and Nina Pinchback. His maternal grandfather was Louisiana Governor P. B. S. Pinchback , the first African American to become Governor of a U.S. state Sparta, Georgia . The segregation Toomer experienced in the South led him to identify more strongly as an African American In 1923, Toomer published the High Modernist work, Cane . It is considered by many scholars to be his best work. A series of poems and short stories about the black experience in America, Cane was hailed by critics and is seen as an important work of both the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation Toomer found it more difficult to get published throughout the 1930s, and in 1940 moved with his second wife to Doylestown, Pennsylvania

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8. Jean Toomer- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More Jean Toomer. Jean Toomer was born in 1894 in Washington, D.C, the son of a Georgian farmer. Though he passed for white during certain periods of his life, he was raised in a http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/71

View Cart Log In More Info FURTHER READING Related Prose Masters and Master Works: On Black Male Poetics by Afaa M. Weaver Walking Tour: Langston Hughes’s Harlem of 1926 A Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance Other Harlem Renaissance Poets Arna Bontemps Claude McKay Countee Cullen James Weldon Johnson ... Paul Laurence Dunbar Related Poets Hart Crane External Links Jean Toomer (1894-1967) A collection of critical, historical, and biographical information at the Modern American Poetry site. Adopt a Poet Add to Notebook E-mail to Friend Print Jean Toomer Jean Toomer was born in 1894 in Washington, D.C, the son of a Georgian farmer. Though he passed for white during certain periods of his life, he was raised in a predominantly black community and attended black high schools. In 1914, he began college at the University of Wisconsin but transferred to the College of the City of New York and studied there until 1917. Toomer spent the next four years writing and published poetry and prose in Broom The Liberator The Little Review and others. He actively participated in literary society and was acquainted with such prominent figures as the critic Kenneth Burke, the photographer Alfred Steiglitz and the poet

9. Facts About Toomer, Jean, As Discussed In Britannica Compton's Encyclopedia Toom Facts about Toomer, Jean, (1894–1967). U.S. poet and novelist Jean Toomer is best known today for his experimental novel Cane (1923). This work is a mixture of poetry http://www.britannica.com/facts/11/1042734/

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10. Introduction To Cane By ARNA BONTEMPS The introduction by Arna Bontemps which appears in a 1969 edition of Toomer s novel. http://aalbc.com/authors/introtocane.htm

The #1 Site for African American Literature Cane Click to order via Amazon ISBN: 0871401517 Pub. Date: August 1993 (originally Published in 1923) Format: Paperback, 138pp Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation Introduction to Cane ARNA BONTEMPS LOOKING back on the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's, the distinguished scholar and sociologist, Charles S. Johnson, observed that "A brief ten years have developed more confident self-expression, more widespread efforts in the direction of art than the long, dreary two centuries before." Recalling the sunburst of Jean Toomer's first appearance, he added, "Here was triumphantly the Negro artist, detached from propaganda, sensitive only to beauty. Where [Paul Laurence] Dunbar gave to the unnamed Negro peasant a reassuring touch of humanity, Toomer gave to the peasant a passionate charm.... More than artist, he was an experimentalist, and this last quality has carried him away from what was, perhaps, the most astonishingly brilliant beginning of any Negro writer of this generation." Cane, the book that provoked this comment, was published in 1923 after portions of it had appeared earlier in Broom, The Crisis, Double Dealer, Liberator, Little Review, Modern Review, Nomad, Prairie and S 4 N. But Cane and its author, let it be said at once, presented an enigma from the start-an enigma which has, in many ways, deepened in the years since its publication. Given such a problem, perhaps one may be excused for not wishing to separate completely the man from his work.

11. Toomer, Jean - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Toomer, Jean US poet and writer. An important writer of the Harlem Renaissance, he is best known for Cane (1923), a work combining poetry, fiction, and drama. http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Toomer, Jean

12. Toomer, Jean - Harlem Renaissance | HighBeam Research - FREE Trial Toomer, Jean find Harlem Renaissance articles. div id= bedoc-text h1Jean Toomer/h1pbBorn December 26, 1894/b /ppbWashington, D.C./b /ppbDi http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3425700031.html

13. AfroPoets.Net Famous Black Writers Jean Toomer Brief biography and ten of Toomer s poems. http://www.afropoets.net/jeantoomer.html

Jean Toomer AfroPoets.Net Famous Black Writers o Home o Poetry Board o PoeticQ.com - Famous Writers Gallery o MrAfrica.TV - Live Spoken Word Picture Brief Bio Nathan Eugene Toomer was born in Washington, DC on December 26, 1894. His surname was Pinchback but he used his father's last name as an adult and changed his name from Eugene to Jean when he began to write. Toomer spent his early years in Washington in the home of his grandparents. His grandfather was Pinkney Benton Pinchback, a prominent Louisiana politician of the Reconstruction era. They were racially mixed and could have been considered white but his grandfather identified with the blacks. Toomer considered himself a new type of man. He said he was mixed with "Scotch, Welsh, German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish and some dark blood." He said he was of the "human race". He spent much of his childhood in an affluent white section of Washington free of racial prejudice. After the death of Toomer's mother in 1909, the Pinchbacks experienced extreme financial losses and moved into a modest black section of Washington. Toomer attended the M Street High School, Washington Secondary School for Negroes. Toomer went to several universities studying various subjects and working different jobs. In 1914, he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin to study agriculture but he left. He entered the Massachusetts College of Agriculture but left after a short time. In 1916, he was enrolled at both the American College of Physical Training and the University of Chicago. He studied evolution and socialism. He worked at a shipyard, a store, sold cars and directed physical education.

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15. Nathan Eugene Toomer Definition Of Nathan Eugene Toomer In The Free Online Encyc Toomer, Jean, 1894–1967, American writer, b. Washington, D.C., as Nathan Eugene Toomer. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he is known for one work, Cane (1923), a http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Nathan Eugene Toomer

16. John Greenleaf Whittier- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More Biography, photograph, and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/720

View Cart Log In More Info FURTHER READING Related Prose A Brief Guide to the Fireside Poets Other Fireside Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow External Links Familiar Quotations From Project Bartleby. A selection of Whittier quotations from the 1919 edition of Bartlett's. Folklore Ballads of John Greenleaf Whittier "The Norsemen," "The Brown Dwarf of Rügen," "The Changeling," and "Kallundborg Church". John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) Classroom issues, strategies, and discussion questions from Georgetown University. Quaker Poems A selection of Whittier's religious verse. Selected Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier Twelve poems from Representative Poetry On-Line at University of Toronto. Whittier's Anti-Slavery Poem to New Hampshire Article by J. Dennis Robinson discussing New Hampshire abolitionists in relation to Whittier's poem "New Hampshire". Includes text of the poem. Adopt a Poet Add to Notebook E-mail to Friend Print John Greenleaf Whittier An American poet and editor, John Greenleaf Whittier was born December 17, 1807, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The son of two devout Quakers, he grew up on the family farm and had little formal schooling. His first published poem, "The Exile's Departure," was published in William Lloyd Garrison's Newburyport Free Press in 1826. He then attended Haverhill Academy from 1827 to 1828, supporting himself as a shoemaker and schoolteacher. By the time he was twenty, he had published enough verse to bring him to the attention of editors and readers in the antislavery cause. A Quaker devoted to social causes and reform, Whittier worked passionately for a series of abolitionist newspapers and magazines. In Boston, he edited

17. Toomer, Jean Definition Of Toomer, Jean In The Free Online Encyclopedia. Toomer, Jean, 1894–1967, American writer, b. Washington, D.C., as Nathan Eugene Toomer. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he is known for one work, Cane (1923), a http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Toomer, Jean

18. Toomer, Jean (1894-1967) Toomer, Jean (18941967) PERSONAL Born December 26, 1894, in Washington, DC; died, March 30, 1967; in Doylestown, PA; son of Nathan and Nina (Pinchback) Toomer; married http://www.jiffynotes.com/a_study_guides/book_notes_add/mtcw_05/mtcw_05_00965.ht

19. Jean Toomer Biography, literary criticism of some of his poems, three articles by Toomer. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/toomer/toomer.htm

Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Toomer's Life and Career On "Reapers" On "November Cotton Flower" On "Portrait in Georgia" ... External Links Prepared and Compiled by Charles Scruggs Return to Modern American Poetry Home Return to Poets Index

20. Oxford AASC: Toomer, Jean At A Glance Sex Male. Born Washington, District of Columbia, United States 26 December 1894 http://www.oxfordaasc.com/article/aag/958

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