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Langston Hughes and the Blues
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: Steven C. Tracy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-07 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes’s work w
The Weary Blues
Language: en
Pages: 99
Authors: Langston Hughes
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-31 - Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

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Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Blac
The Weary Blues
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Langston Hughes
Categories: African Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 1926 - Publisher:

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"Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa"--Hughes spoke directly,
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: Langston Hughes
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-09-12 - Publisher: Vintage

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Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly
Blues Poems
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Kevin Young
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-02 - Publisher: Everyman's Library

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Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to “S