Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.“Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia InquirerArguably the most important writer to emerge from the Harlem
- Title : Vintage Hughes
- Author : Langston Hughes
- Rating : 4.80 (587 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-12-11
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 208 Pages
- Asin : 1400034027
- Language : English
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.“Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia InquirerArguably the most important writer to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s, Langston Hughes was a great poet and a shrewd and lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom.Vintage Hughesincludes the poems “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “I, Too,” “The Weary Blues,” “America,” “Let America Be America Again,” “Dream Variations,” “Young Sailor,” “Afro-American Fragment,” “Scottsboro,” “The Negro Mother,” “Good Morning Revolution,” “I Dream a World,” “The Heart of Harlem,” “
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