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The poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the premier Black writer of poetry that used the dialect of rural African American of the southern United States. Although Dunbar`s works were both popular with readers and acclaimed by literary critics during his lifetime, after the First World War a radical shift occurred, at least in critical opinion of his poetry, and twentieth-century critical evaluation of his work has been generally negative. Some critics attacked his work on social grounds for failing to challenge plantation stereotypes of African Americans. Other critics, such as the post James Weldon Johnson, argued from aesthetic grounds that dialect poetry in general was too limited as an artistic medium, and capable of producing only two effects: pathos and humor. The negative critical trend only began to reverse itself in the 1970s, when scholars began to emphasize the importance of mythic, psychological ,and historical dimensions of Dunbar`s works, focusing on the interior and exterior realities of African American life after the Civil War.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage concerning literary critics` evaluations of Dunbar`s poetry?

ADuring Dunbar`s lifetime, critics did not commonly evaluate his works according to aesthetic criteria.
BNegative critical evaluations of Dunbar`s poetry on social grounds caused his work to become less popular with the reading public in the periods following the First World War
CIn the period between the First World War and the 1970s, critics did not commonly evaluate Dunbar`s works in terms of psychological and historical considerations
DA reversal of a negative critical trend led to wider popularity of Dunbar`s works among the reading public in the 1970s
EIn the 1970s, scholars began to reevaluate Dunbar`s work in the light of James Weldon Johnson`s criticism of the limitations of dialect poetry

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