Selected Poems Of Langston Hughes

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990-09-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780679728184

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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Pdf

Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.

Author : James Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780679426318

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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by James Langston Hughes Pdf

Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307949400

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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Pdf

Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780385353564

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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Pdf

This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes’s journey in all its aspects: personal, political, practical, and—above all—literary. His letters range from those written to family members, notably his father (who opposed Langston’s literary ambitions), and to friends, fellow artists, critics, and readers who sought him out by mail. These figures include personalities such as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Vachel Lindsay, Ezra Pound, Richard Wright, Kurt Weill, Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka, and Muhammad Ali. The letters tell the story of a determined poet precociously finding his mature voice; struggling to realize his literary goals in an environment generally hostile to blacks; reaching out bravely to the young and challenging them to aspire beyond the bonds of segregation; using his artistic prestige to serve the disenfranchised and the cause of social justice; irrepressibly laughing at the world despite its quirks and humiliations. Venturing bravely on what he called the “big sea” of life, Hughes made his way forward always aware that his only hope of self-fulfillment and a sense of personal integrity lay in diligently pursuing his literary vocation. Hughes’s voice in these pages, enhanced by photographs and quotations from his poetry, allows us to know him intimately and gives us an unusually rich picture of this generous, visionary, gratifyingly good man who was also a genius of modern American letters.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429924115

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The Short Stories of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Pdf

The Short Stories of Langston Hughes This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399550195

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That Is My Dream! by Langston Hughes Pdf

“Dream Variation,” one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares, the acclaimed creator of Float. To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done…. Langston Hughes's inspiring and timeless message of pride, joy, and the dream of a better life is brilliantly and beautifully interpreted in Daniel Miyares's gorgeous artwork. Follow one African-American boy through the course of his day as the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice comes into vivid focus. But the boy dreams of a different life—one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun. Hughes's powerful vision, brought joyously to life by Daniel Miyares, is as relevant—and necessary—today as when it was first written.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015046481225

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Hughes: Poems by Langston Hughes Pdf

A collection of poems by the African-American poet Langston Hughes.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780679764083

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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Pdf

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” (OPRAH Magazine). 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. 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. The collection spans five decades, and is comprised of 868 poems (nearly 300 of which never before appeared in book form) with annotations 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 Hughes's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as "Goodbye Christ" that were once suppressed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:14000095

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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571264179

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Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath Pdf

This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees. The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath's juvenilia. This collection was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 'For me, the most important literary event of 1981 has been the publication, eighteen years after her death, of Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, confirming her as one of the most powerful and lavishly gifted poets of our time.' A. Alvarez in the Observer

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015058068837

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Vintage Hughes by Langston Hughes Pdf

Presents selected works from "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes," and "The Ways of White Folks."

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307949394

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The Panther and the Lash by Langston Hughes Pdf

Hughes's last collection of poems commemorates the experience of Black Americans in a voice that no reader could fail to hear—the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time. “Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature ... a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color. Here, Hughes's voice—sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful—is more pointed than ever before, as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as "Prime," "Motto," "Dream Deferred," "Frederick Douglas: 1817-1895," "Still Here," "Birmingham Sunday." " History," "Slave," "Warning," and "Daybreak in Alabama."

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393345810

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She Had Some Horses: Poems by Joy Harjo Pdf

A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets. First published in 1983 and now considered a classic, She Had Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love.

Author : E. E. Cummings
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780871401540

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Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings Pdf

One hundred and fifty-six poems, grouped by theme, are accompanied by drawings, oils, and watercolors by the poet.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547110521

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The Big Sea by Langston Hughes Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sea" by Langston Hughes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.