The Ballad of the Brown Girl
Author | : Countee Cullen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Countee Cullen uses the traditional structure of the medieval ballad to retell a legend about an English lord who must choose between a Black bride and a white one, with deadly results. In a letter, the author described the poem as "quite a gruesome affair with no less than three murders in it. It is founded on an old song which every colored Kentuckian knows."