It was not something useless, it was at least an attempt to change something without violence, with the help of something everyone can understand - poetry. ... Claude McKay` s poetry of 1917 presents some of the most important pieces of the Harlem Renaissance as well. ... Writers of the Renaissance were in the vanguard of the attempt to come to terms with black urbanization; they lived it, reflected on it, and through their art endeavored to resolve some of the problems arising from it. ...
Her two main series are The Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches.22 The Vampire Chronicles portrays modern vampires through a vampire's eyes, often as victims of the "dark gift"23 of vampirism, struggling to come to terms with their nature or accepting it and moving on. ...