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Paul Laurence Dunbar's performances and the epistolary dialect poem.
When the Western Association of Writers convened in Paul Laurence Dunbars hometown of Dayton, Ohio, in 1892, he read a welcome address in verse, which included the following lines:
So, proud are you who claim the West As home land; doubly are you blest To live where liberty and health Go hand and hand with brains and wealth. (11.9-12)
Throughout the poem, Dunbar uses the second person in greeting the Midwesterners in the audience, leaving room to question whether he would include himself among them as a "Western" writer, but the poem ends with his offering his own "welcome warm as Western wine, / And free as Western hearts" (11.23-24). In ...
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