Langston Hughes
Hughes, Langston - (James Langston Hughes), 1902–67, American poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, b. Joplin, Mo., grad. Lincoln Univ., 1929. He worked at a variety of jobs and lived in several countries, including Mexico and France, before Vachel Lindsay discovered his poetry in 1925. The publication of The Weary Blues (1926), his first volume of poetry, enabled Hughes to Read More...
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Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance ("Langston Hughes" begins on p. 73)
by Harold Bloom. 160 pgs.
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New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance: Essays on Race, Gender, and Literary Discourse ("Rereading Langston Hughes: Rhetorical Pedagogy in 'Theme for English B,' or the Harlem Renaissance in the Composition Classroom" begins on p. 241, and "'By the Pale Dull Pallor of an Old Gas Light': Technology and Vision in Langston Hughes's 'The Weary Blues'" begins on p. 253
by Australia Tarver, Paula C. Barnes. 300 pgs.
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Harlem Renaissance Re-examined ("Langston Hughes: Evolution of the Poetic Persona" begins on p. 259)
by Victor A. Kramer, Robert A. Russ. 422 pgs.
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Jazzing It Up: The Be-Bop Modernism of Langston Hughes, in Mosaic (Winnipeg)
by Robert O'Brien Hokanson. 22 pgs.
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African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Langston Huges (1902-1967)" begins on p. 249)
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 528 pgs.
