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The first volume of Hughes’s autobiography, The Big Sea (1940), covers approximately the first thirty years of his life, including his early encounters with salvation and African American churches.
Hughes is best known as a poet, and The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (1994), running more than seven hundred pages, shows the depth and range of his poetic talents. The poem “Tambourines” is similar to the song Essie sings at the end of the novel.
Tambourines to Glory has sometimes been compared to Elmer Gantry (1927), a novel by Sinclair...
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