Countee Cullen was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Although he was active in African American life and culture, his poetry came to represent the “old guard” of the literary elite. For his classical training and careful use of form, he was criticized for not working to establish, as Langston Hughes or Zora Neale Hurston did, a uniquely black literature.
“Any Human to Another,” was first included in Cullen’s 1935 collection The Medea and Some Poems.
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