Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 Lyrics of a Lowly Life, one poem in the collection being Ode to Ethiopia. His poems were written mainly in black dialect.

Websites dedicated to..

• University of Dayton's Paul Laurence Dunbar website
• Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Collection

Poems

• See Category:Paul Laurence Dunbar for all poems in our database written by Paul Laurence Dunbar.