The Poetry of Hughes (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Langston Hughes
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Music or musicians, New York City, Protests or demonstrations, 1940’s, Depression, economic, Harlem Renaissance, Poetry or poets, 1930’s, Inner cities or inner-city life, Rivers or waterways, Folk music or folk songs, Speech
James Mercer Langston Hughes was the most versatile, popular, and influential African American writer of the twentieth century. Hughes published scores of books in his lifetime: two novels, plays, collections of short stories and essays, an autobiography, seven children’s books, poetry translations, a number of African American poetry and fiction anthologies—and fourteen volumes of verse. From the 1920’s until his death in May, 1967, Hughes was widely recognized as the unofficial poet laureate of the African American urban experience, its most dedicated and passionately eloquent...
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