Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Hughes, Langston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067972818X ISBN 13: 9780679728184

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1990

Synopsis

The poems in this volume were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death in 1967 and encompass work from his entire career. His poetry launched a revolution among black writers in America.

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Review:

Always intensely subjective, passionate, keenly sensitive to beauty and possessed of an unfaltering musical sense (New York Herald Tribune)

Langston Hughes is the Negro Poet Laureate. He loves his race and reports and interprets it feelingly and understandingly to itself and to the other races (Carl Van Vechten)

About the Author:

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then a year studying at Columbia University. His first poem in a nationally known magazine was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," which appeared in Crisis in 1921. In 1925, he was awarded the First Prize for Poetry of the magazine Opportunity, the winning poem being "The Weary Blues," which gave its title to his first book of poems, published in 1926. As a result of his poetry, Mr. Hughes received a scholarship at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he won his B.A. in 1929. In 1943, he was awarded an honorary Litt.D. by his alma mater; he has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1935), a Rosenwald Fellowship (1940), and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant (1947). From 1926 until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes devoted his time to writing and lecturing. He wrote poetry, short stories, autobiography, song lyrics, essays, humor, and plays. A cross section of his work was published in 1958 as The Langston Hughes Reader.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 067972818X
• ISBN 13: 9780679728184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 297