Read full poem →compassed music, art, and literature, and included such writers as
Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer,
and Arna Bontemps.
Dictionary Entry
Denim.
In a Sentence
“She wore a tattered jean jacket.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “jean”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Boni and Liveright for poems from Cane by Jean Toomer
Read full poem →Standing with the heroic remnant
Of Napoleon’s guard on Mount Saint Jean
At the battle field of Waterloo,
Read full poem →Klingsor is a poet. As for the Elskamp phase and cult, I do not make
much of it. Jean de Bosschère has written a book upon Elskamp, and he
assures me that Elskamp is a great and important poet, and some day,
Read full poem →Morungen had had no occasion to say "Je pense à Jean-Jacques," and it is
foolish, to expect exactly the same charm of a twentieth-century poet
Read full poem →Before his death in 1635, Champlain made many exploring
expeditions far into the interior. One of his agents, Jean
Nicolet, went as far west as Wisconsin and made trading
Read full poem →I cannot give the exact reference, because Jean de Meun's description of
the various moods of Fortune extends to a portentous length. Chaucer
Read full poem →Some corrections. § 27. The French Text. §§ 28, 29. Brief Analysis
of the French Poem: G. de Lorris. § 30. Jean de Meun; to the end
of Fragment B. § 31. Gap in the Translation. § 32. Fragment C.
Read full poem →by, I’m goin to lay down dis heavy load”) there have been born many
poets. Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Jean
Toomer, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Countée Cullen, are a few of the more
