Books : The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
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by: Langston Hughes
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780679764083
ISBN: 0679764089
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 736
Publication Date: October 31, 1995
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: October 31, 1995
Sales Rank: 20642
Studio: Vintage
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'The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation.'--Boston Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.
Alongside such famous works as 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as 'Goodbye Christ' that were once suppressed. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.
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Rating:  - Langston Hughes, Personal history
The book is worth purchasing for the biographical background. His youth and adulthood were extremely tough and lonely. Hughes seems to have lost his religion early in life.
Rating: - The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Excellent book and historical treasure that I intend to pass down to my grandchildren in the future.
Rating: - Our finest American poet finally properly and comprehensively collected, with corrected chronology and annotations
More than the exiled Eliott, greater than Walt Whitman, consistently clearer than Ginsberg, more powerful than Pound, freer than Frost, more American than Wallace Stevens, moreso even than the mighty Merton, here at long last is our greatest American poet receiving over-due respect.
A thick tome I purchased for my English learners which will instead fill my bed and my head for many cold and lonesome months ahead. Like the collected Poe, the collected Giovanni, an essential element to ... Read More
Rating: - This guy blows me out of the water
I prefer his earlier stuff but there are poems in this book that make the entire thing worth it. Nude Young Dancer, Minstrel Song and countless others made me want to weep and smile. What can I say, I felt this guys pain...
Rating: - poetry that is food for the soul......
If you haven't heard of Langston Hughes, I suggest that you purchase this, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES, as an introduction to his style. Hughes was part of the definitive Harlem Renaissance Movement of the 1920s through the late 1940s, that was a very important period of time for African-Americans in the United States. For the first time, their voices were really being heard [and recognized] in the genres of music, writing, and sculpture, in this country.
This book is an ... Read More
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