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Black Poets of the United States John Wilkes this work may not seemThis is the only full length study of the major black poets of the United States from early slavery times to Langston Hughes. First published in France in 1963, the book is, in the words of Robert Bone, ''a seminal work not likely soon to be replaced as the standard treatment of its field.'' Langston Hughes called it ''a monumental work.'' ''A matchless study. . . . the best full length study of Black American poetry that has seen print. Wagner has