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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Missouri Press

ISBN-100826213391

ISBN-139780826213396

eBay Product ID (ePID)1808023

Product Key Features

Book TitlePoems 1921-1940 (Lh1)

Number of Pages296 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicAmerican / African American, General

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections

AuthorLangston Hughes

Book SeriesThe Collected Works of Langston Hughes Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight21 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN00-066601

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Rooted in the black experience, [Hughes's] poems are driven by the same democratic urge that inspired Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, and William Carlos Williams."-- Philadelphia Inquirer, "[Hughes] is one of the essential figures in American literature. . . . By his work and his example, he has enriched our lives."- New York Times Book Review, "[Hughes] is one of the essential figures in American literature....By his work and his example, he has enriched our lives."-- New York Times Book Review, "Rooted in the black experience, [Hughes's] poems are driven by the same democratic urge that inspired Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, and William Carlos Williams."- Philadelphia Inquirer, "[Hughes] is one of the essential figures in American literature. . . . By his work and his example, he has enriched our lives."-- New York Times Book Review

Grade FromCollege Freshman

Series Volume Number1

Dewey Decimal818/.5209

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisVolume 1 includes the complete texts of four books of verse by Hughes, including his first book, The Weary Blues (1926), and his second, Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), as well as other poems published by him during and after the Harlem Renaissance. The Weary Blues announced the arrival of a rare voice in American poetry. A literary descendant of Walt Whitman ("I, too, sing America," Hughes wrote), he chanted the joys and sorrows of black America in unprecedented language. A gifted lyricist, he offered rhythms and cadences that epitomized the particularities of African American creativity, especially jazz and the blues. His second volume, steeped in the blues and controversial because of its frankness, confirmed Hughes as a poet of uncompromising integrity. Then in the 1930s came Dear Lovely Death (1931) and the radical A New Song (1938). Poems such as "Good Morning Revolution" and "Let America Be America Again" made his pen one of the most forceful in America during the Great Depression. Book jacket., Volume 1 includes the complete texts of four books of verse by Hughes, including his first book, The Weary Blues (1926), and his second, Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), as well as other poems published by him during and after the Harlem Renaissance. The Weary Blues announced the arrival of a rare voice in American poetry. A literary descendant of Walt Whitman ("I, too, sing America," Hughes wrote), he chanted the joys and sorrows of black America in unprecedented language. A gifted lyricist, he offered rhythms and cadences that epitomized the particularities of African American creativity, especially jazz and the blues. His second volume, steeped in the blues and controversial because of its frankness, confirmed Hughes as a poet of uncompromising integrity. Then in the 1930s came Dear Lovely Death (1931) and the radical A New Song (1938). Poems such as "Good Morning Revolution" and "Let America Be America Again" made his pen one of the most forceful in America during the Great Depression.

LC Classification NumberPS3515.U274 2001