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From: African American Review
Date: 19970922
Author:Tidwell, John Edgar

Sterling Allen Brown asserted that his literary creations were largely influenced by folk experience rather than folk epics. He denied the charge by James Weldon Johnson that African American literature is mostly imitative and derivative of the works of whites. Brown downplayed the influence of whites but admits that he 'shared' rather than was influenced by Robert Frost's notion of poetic tradition. 'In Dive's Dive' provides points of convergence and divergence between black and white poetry.

It is late at night and still I am losing, But still I am steady and unaccusing.

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