Broadside Critics Series Form and Style (Page 1)

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To: All authors of the Broad.aide Critics Series From: James A. Emanuel, General Editor Date: January 31, 1970 Subject: Recommended .form and style of manuscripts treating several poets. The following recommendations have the purpose of saving timeand of achieving a reasonablyuniform series that will be instructive, interesting, and readable to the general public and to students. Our purpose of attracting Black readers in particular should be elevating and should express itself in a scrupulous concern that the Broadside Critics series maintain the highest standards of factual accuracy and critical integrity. Content: Each booklet in the Broadside Critics Series should sontain tbe following: 1. PREFACE (an explanation of (a) the aim Of tbe booklet., (b) the principle that justifies the grouping of the selected poets, and (c) tbe organization ot the contents of the booklet). 2. TEXT (beginning with a condensed exposition of the main historical and cultural forces at work during the productivity of the selected poets as a group; proceeding with a sequential treatment of those poets, limited to the following): A. A biographical account as detailed and full as available material will allow, in caaes where biographies are not already available. (Contributing critics, by urging upon living poets the literary historical signifiance of the Series, should

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James A. Emanuel, as General Editor of the Broadside Critics Series, provides guidelines on the series form and styles to authors.

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