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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5209
EAN: 9780826213396
ISBN: 0826213391
Label: University of Missouri Press
Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 2001-05
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Studio: University of Missouri Press
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The first three volumes of Missouri's landmark Collected Works of Langston Hughes comprise all of his published poetry. Although he worked in a variety of forms, Hughes was above all a poet. From 1921, when his first poem. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," appeared in a national magazine, until 1967, when his last volume appeared shortly after his death, he remained faithful to his central goal - to be a poet of the African American and American experience, creating verse that honored the culture of black American and the ideals of the nation. Volume 1 includes the complete texts of Hughes's 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, steephed in the blues and controversial because of its frankness, confirmed Hughes as a poet of uncompromising integrity. Then, in the 1930s especially, came the radical poetry included in Dear Lovely Death (1934) and A New Song (1938). For example, "Good Morning Revolution" and "Let American Be America Again" made his pen one of the most forceful in America during the Great Depression.
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Excellent view of an emerging modernist culture in a time when little has been shared generally with the mainstream American history instruction in schools.
Uplifting and provocative in a positive way. For a whitebread middleclass American, I found this refreshing when compared to the mudslinging of the divisionist politics currently going on in the Presidential election.
Each culture has unique views and gifts to share, this was an enlightening view of the Black Culture ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5209
EAN: 9780826213396
ISBN: 0826213391
Label: University of Missouri Press
Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 2001-05
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Studio: University of Missouri Press