Identify this work:  “[This work] is a reaction to the racia…

Identify this work:  “[This work] is a reaction to the racial climate of the late nineteenth century. [The author] talks about hypocrisy, deception, and the fact that black Americans often resorted to seeming content with their social circumstances. But behind all that seeming, though, is just a bunch of lies trying to cover up the fact that they were feeling pretty rotten and unable to talk about their feelings in an honest way.” 

Following Pound, this particular poet, a writer and a doctor…

Following Pound, this particular poet, a writer and a doctor, was one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement, though as time went on, he began to increasingly disagree with the values put forth in the work of Pound and especially Eliot, who he felt were too attached to European culture and traditions. Continuing to experiment with new techniques of meter and lineation, he sought to invent an entirely fresh—and singularly American—poetic, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people.