Talk:James Madison Bell

Additional sources

There are quite a few resources about Bell, so this article could be very much improved and fully developed, especially if you have library access and time to track down sources. I am going to list them here, as a sort of task list for this article.

• Another digitized work to add to works and publications:
  • https://archive.org/details/poemdeliveredaug00bell
• Enclyclopedia.com:
  • Arnett, Bishop B. W., “Biographical Sketch of J. Madison Bell: The Distinguished Poet and Reader,” in The Poetical Works of James Madison Bell, 2nd edition, Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1904, pp. 3-14.
  • Brawley, Benjamin, Early Negro American Writers: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions, University of North Carolina Press, 1935, pp. 279-289.
  • Byerman, Keith E., in Trudier Harris (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 50: Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance, Gale, 1986, pp. 3-6.
  • DiMauro, Laurie, ed., Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 43, Gale, 1992, pp. 87-93.
  • Locke, Mamie E., in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds.), American National Biography, Vol. 2, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 507-508.
  • Milde, Robert L., in Emmanuel S. Nelson (ed.), African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Greenwood, 2000, pp. 13-17.
  • Redding, J. Saunders, To Make a Poet Black, 1939; Cornell University Press, 1988, pp. 19-48.
  • Redmond, Eugene B., Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry, a Critical History, Anchor Books, 1976, pp. 85-138.
  • Sherman, Joan R., Invisible Poets: Afro-Americans of the Nineteenth Century, University of Illinois Press, 1974, pp. 80-87.
• Literature Resource Center database search
  • Redding, J. Saunders. "'Let Freedom Ring,'." To Make a Poet Black (1939). Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 43. Detroit: Gale, 1992. Literature Resource Center. Web. 7 Feb. 2016. URL
  • Arnett, Bishop B. W. "Biographical Sketch of J. Madison Bell: The Distinguished Poet and Reader." The Poetical Works of James Madison Bell. 2nd ed. Press of Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford Co., 1904. 3-14. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 43. Detroit: Gale, 1992. Literature Resource Center. Web. 7 Feb. 2016. URL
  • Byerman, Keith E. "James Madison Bell." Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. Trudier Harris-Lopez and Thadious M. Davis. Detroit: Gale, 1986. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 50. Literature Resource Center. Web. 7 Feb. 2016. URL
    • Benjamin W. Arnett, "Biographical Sketch," in The Poetical Works of James Madison Bell, pp. 3-14.
    • Benjamin Brawley, The Negro Genius: A New Appraisal of the Achievement of the American Negro in Literature and the Fine Arts (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1937), pp. 70, 87-89.
    • Sterling A. Brown, Negro Poetry and Drama (Washington, D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1937), pp. 9-10.
    • William Wells Brown, The Rising Son (Boston: A.G. Brown, 1873), pp. 504-505.
    • Robert Kerlin, Negro Poets and Their Poems (Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1923), pp. 32-37.
    • J. Saunders Redding, To Make a Poet Black (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1939), pp. 44-47.
    • Eugene B. Redmond, Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry (Garden City: Anchor/Doubleday, 1976), pp. 86, 94-97.
    • Joan R. Sherman, Invisible Poets: Afro-Americans of the Nineteenth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1974), pp. 80-87.
  • "James Madison Bell." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 7 Feb. 2016. URL
• Picture from NYPL Digital collection, which looks like it is in the public domain