Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Langston Hughes
- First Published: 1959
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: African 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
The Work
The poems of Langston Hughes’s Selected Poems of Langston Hughes were gathered by the poet from several of his earlier collections, including: The Weary Blues (1926), Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), Dear Lovely Death (1931), Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Fields of Wonder (1947), One Way Ticket (1949), and Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951). Representative of the body of Hughes’s poetry, the collection includes his best poems: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “The Weary Blues,” “Song for a Dark Girl,”...
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