The Poetry of Langston Hughes
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Gathering the early verse of one of America's essential poets, this collection carries the jazz cadences, blues laments, and plainspoken pride that made Langston Hughes the defining voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Here are poems that celebrate Black life along Harlem streets and Southern rivers, that mourn injustice and insist on dignity in the face of it. Hughes wrote for ordinary readers as much as for critics, setting the music of everyday speech and the sorrow of the blues onto the page. Read as protest, celebration, or quiet lament, the work still speaks with directness and heat.
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Book facts
- Author
- Langston Hughes
- Reading time
- About 70 minutes
- Pages
- 254
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Modern Poetry
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online