" The family of Berry Hamilton morally disintegrates after moving to the North in his unbearably depressing naturalistic novel The Sport of the Gods, and his poetry collections include Majors and Minors, Lyrics of Lowly Life, and Oak and Ivy.
One of this author's poems states that "Justice with unbandaged eyes / Would be oppression in disguise." This author wrote about an artist who "sang of life serenely sweet" but is ignored by the world, which "turned to praise / a jingle in a broken tongue," in "The Poet." A shriveled tree bough narrates a lynching performed by a judge who "wore a mask of black" and a doctor "one of white" in this author's poem "The Haunted Oak." He also wrote about an object that "grins and lies" which "hides our cheeks and shades our eyes" in his poem "We Wear the Mask." The family of Berry Hamilton morally disintegrates after moving to the North in his unbearably depressing naturalistic novel The Sport of the Gods, and his poetry collections include Majors and Minors, Lyrics of Lowly Life, and Oak and Ivy. FTP, name this author born in Dayton, Ohio whose poem "Sympathy" laments "I know why the caged bird sings."
One of this author's poems states that "Justice with unbandaged eyes / Would be oppression in disguise.
{Paul Laurence Dunbar}