Download or read book A Gallery of Harlem Portraits written by Melvin B. Tolson and published by University of Missouri. This book was released on 1979 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gallery of Harlem Portraits was written some forty years ago when Tolson was immersed in the writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the subject of his master's thesis at Columbia University._ Modeled on Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology and showing the influence of Browning and Whitman, it is rooted in the Harlem Renaissance in its fascination with Harlem's cultural and ethnic diversity and its use of musical forms._ Robert Farnsworth's afterword elucidates these and other literary influences.