Author:Claude McKay

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Claude McKay
(1889/1890–1948)

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Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance

Works

Poetry

Collections

Songs of Jamaica (1912)
Constab Ballads (1912)
Spring in New Hampshire, and Other Poems (1920)
America (1921)
Harlem Shadows (1922)
The Selected Poems of Claude McKay (1953)

Individual poems

"If We Must Die" (1919)
"Travail" (1920)
"After the Winter"
In The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson
"The Lynching"

"If We Must Die"

"To the White Fiends"

"The Harlem Dancer"

"Harlem Shadows"

"After the Winter"

"Spring in New Hampshire"

"The Tired Worker"

"The Barrier"

"To O. E. A."

"Flame-Heart"

"Two-an'-Six"
"Spring in New Hampshire" in Poems for Workers: An Anthology (1925)
In Caroling Dusk (1927), edited by Countee Cullen
"America"

"Exhortation: Summer, 1919"

"Flame-heart"

"The Wild Goat"

"Russian Cathedral"

"Desolate"

"Absence"

"My House"
Flowers of Passion

Fiction

Home to Harlem (1928) (transcription project)
Banjo (1929)
Banana Bottom (1933)
Gingertown (1932)
Harlem Glory (1990) – but written 1940
Amiable with Big Teeth (2017) - but composed in 1941
Romance in Marseille (2020) - but written around 1933

Non Fiction

Articles

Workers' Dreadnought

“Socialism and the Negro”, 31 January 31 1920 , p.1-2
“The Capitalist Way: Lettow-Vorbeck”, 7 February 1920, p.6
“A Black Man Replies”, 24 April 1920, p.2
“Review of Creative Revolution”, 24 July 1920, p.5
“Review of First Principles of Working Class Education”, 11 September, 1920, p.5
“Communists and Local Councils of Action”, 25 September, 1920, p.6
“The Revolution in Currency”, 2 October, 1920, p.
“The Yellow Peril and the Dockers”, 16 October 1920

The Liberator

“How Black Sees Green and Red”, Vol. 4 No. 6, June 1921

Other

A Long Way from Home (1937)
Harlem: Negro Metropolis (1940)
My Green Hills of Jamaica (1946)

Works about McKay

"Claude McKay" in Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923)
"Claude McKay" by Claude McKay, in Caroling Dusk (1927), edited by Countee Cullen

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1948, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 76 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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