Paul L. Dunbar

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dialect, of which he was initially most noted for (Martin and Hudson 16).
His second volume, “Majors and Minors” was published in 1895. “Majors and Minor” were a collection of poems that was written in standard English (“major”) and in dialect (“minor”) (Young 373). It was this book that fixed him on his literary path. This book attracted favorable notice by novelist and critic, William Dean Howells who also introduced Dunbar’s next book, “Lyrics of Lowly Life” which contained some of the finest verses of the first two volumes.
Dunbar was a popular writer of short fiction. He relied upon tone, subtle details expressed through speech, atmosphere, assumed manners and morals, and mood rather than plot to tell his tale. His depiction of life on plantations gives a vivid account of the fate of black men before and after the emancipation.
Interestingly enough, Dunbar did write about whites in society also. He did not write about them at the bottom of society, but ...

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