The poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death in and represent work from his entire career, including "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America."Cited by: 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 /5(41). · 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 /5(11).
From until his death in , Hughes devoted his time to writing and lecturing. He wrote poetry, short stories, autobiography, song lyrics, essays, humor, and plays. A cross section of his work was published in as The Langston Hughes Reader; a Selected Poems first appeared in and a Collected Poems in Today, his many works. Selected Poems of Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, - ) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, socialist, homosexual and columnist. He began writing poetry when he was a young teenager. His newspaper column ran for twenty years in the s and s. Hughes's second volume of poetry, Fine Clothes to the Jew (), was not well received at the time of its publication because it was too experimental. Now, however, many critics believe the volume to be among Hughes's finest work. Langston Hughes returned to school in , this time to the historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
The poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death in and represent work from his entire career, including "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America.". Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse (Vintage Classics) by Hughes, Langston Seller Wilmington Books Published Condition New Edition 5th or later Edition ISBN Item Price $. I am the worker sold to the machine. I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—. Hungry yet today despite the dream. Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers! I am the man who never got ahead, The poorest worker bartered through the years. Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream.
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