“Go on and up!”: the tight-rope-walking poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.) “Accountability” . Folks ain’t got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits; Him dat giv’ de squir’ls de bushtails made de bobtails fu’ de rabbits. Him dat built de gread big mountains hollered out de little valleys, Him dat made de streets an’ driveways wasn’t shamed … Continue reading “Go on and up!”: the tight-rope-walking poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar