658 "The Snow Fairy" by Claude McKay | Literary Journeys (with John McMurtrie)

Update: 2024-12-05

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After taking a look at a wintry poem by Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay, Jacke talks to editor John McMurtrie about his new book Literary Journeys Mapping Fictional Travels Across the World of Literature, which celebrates passages of literature that have sent readers to the ends of the earth from Ancient Greece to today.

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