![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture” a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” “Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature. Praise For The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes died of complications of prostate cancer on May 22, 1967. Hughes earned several awards during his lifetime including: a Guggenheim fellowship (1935), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant (1947), and a Spingarn Medal from the NAACP (1960). In addition to writing a large body of poetic work, Hughes wrote eleven plays and countless works of prose, including the well-known “Simple” books. His first book of poems, The Weary Blues, which includes the poem "Dream Variation," was published by Knopf in 1926. ![]() He published his first poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" in The Crisis magazine in 1921. In addition to the black dialect, he incorporated the rhythms of jazz and the blues into his poetry. He is particularly known for his insightful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was a poet, novelist, biographer and a playwright. ![]()
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