The Colllected Poems of Langston Hughes - Hardcover

Hughes, Langston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679426310 ISBN 13: 9780679426318

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994

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Book by Rampersad Arnold

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A complete anthology of the poetry of Langston Hughes presents 860 poems that capture the rhythms, emotions, cultural significance, and political awareness of African-American life, from his earliest works to his final collection. 15,000 first printing.

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timate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe

Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman.  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 and annotated 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 the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as "Goodbye Christ&

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• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679426310
• ISBN 13: 9780679426318
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 708