Back to book
Postscript
Du Bois's opening note on the book itself: between 'the sterner flights of logic' he has set 'some little alightings of what may be poetry' — the essay-and-verse pairing the whole book follows — written as he turned fifty, just after the First World War.
Why the book mixes essay and verseDu Bois at fifty, writing after the warA veiled corner: writing from inside and outside the world at once