The Weary Blues (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

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The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes’s first published volume of poetry, is grounded in a blues aesthetic. Hughes, one of the younger writers of the so-called Harlem Renaissance, had begun publishing his verse in such journals as Crisis, Opportunity, and Survey Graphic, and his landmark poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” appeared in Crisis in 1921. His work, as well as that of fellow Harlem Renaissance poets such as Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Gwendolyn Bennett, was also published in the short-lived journal,...

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