A lot of famous poems by Langston Hughes celebrate Black life and culture, condemn racism, and promote equality. His legacy as a wordsmith solidified him as one of America’s great poets. He’s also considered as one of the very first jazz poets, a poetry style that incorporates jazz rhythm into the flow of the verse. Known throughout his career as ‘Shakespeare of Harlem’, Hughes was as prolific as he was versatile, writing several books between 1925, at the height of the literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, until his death in 1967. Paperback, 736 pages.Langston Hughes, born in 1901 in Missouri, was the legendary African American poet, novelist, essayist, playwright and social activist.
He wrote poetry, short stories, autobiography, song lyrics, essays, humor, and plays. From 1926 until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes devoted his time to writing and lecturing. by his alma mater he has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1935), a Rosenwald Fellowship (1940), and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant (1947). In 1943, he was awarded an honorary Litt.D. Hughes received a scholarship at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he won his B.A. In 1925, he was awarded the First Prize for Poetry of the magazine Opportunity, the winning poem being "The Weary Blues," which gave its title to his first book of poems, published in 1926. His first poem in a nationally known magazine was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," which appeared in Crisis in 1921. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then a year studying at Columbia University. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.
Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.Īlongside such famous works as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press and poems such as "Goodbye Christ" that were once suppressed. Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America-and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman.
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