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Also known as Asa Bundy Sheffey, Robert Earl Hayden

American writer and academic (1913–1980)

Person · Open Library

Born
4 August 1913
Died
25 February 1980
Works
19

Top works

  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver
  • The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
  • Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Canada
Active from
1971-02-12
acoustic rockalternative countryfolk rockindie folkindie rocklo-fi

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Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 - February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. Life Born as Asa Bundy Sheffey, Robert Hayden grew up in Detroit, Michigan. Born to a struggling couple, Ruth and Asa Sheffey (they separated soon after his birth), Hayden was taken in by a foster family, Sue Ellen Westerfield and William Hayden, and grew up in a Detroit ghetto nicknamed "Paradise Valley." The Haydens' perpetually contentious marriage <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Hayde

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Quotes

  • Sundays too my father got up earlyand put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,then with cracked hands that achedfrom labor in the weekday weather madebanked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
  • What did I know, what did I knowof love's austere and lonely offices?
  • Standing to America, bringing homeblack gold, black ivory, black seed.
  • This man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negrobeaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a worldwhere none is lonely, none hunted, alien,this man, superb in love and logic, this manshall be remembered.
  • Oh who and oh who will sing Jesus downto help with struggling and doing without and being coloredall through blue Monday?Till way next Sunday?

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name in native language
Robert Hayden
date of birth
1913-08-04
date of death
1980-02-25
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Robert Hayden
birth name
Asa Bundy Sheffey
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