![]() Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language. 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.Īlongside 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” that were once suppressed. 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. Two collections, Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) and Ask Your Mama (1961), are included as they appeared in their last publication. ![]() ![]() This book is a glorious revelation.”–Boston Globe is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music–. The poems of Langston Hughes’s Selected Poems of Langston Hughes were gathered by the poet from several of his earlier collections, including: The Weary Blues (1926), Fine Clothes to the Jew Download the collected works of langston hughes the poems 1921 1940 PDF/ePub eBooks with no limit and without survey. “The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar–. ![]()
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