Vintage Hughes is a collection of poems and short stories by the legendary African American poet Langston Hughes. The poems included in the collection are representative of Hughes's literary career, which spanned from the 1920s through the 1960s. Hughes was perhaps the central figure of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, the cultural movement which saw an explosion of black literary creativity centered in New York City. The collection addresses themes such as racial equality, perseverance, police brutality, and regional identity.
France held a special value for Langston Hughes even before he first visited Paris. "I will never forget the thrill of first understanding the French of de Maupassant," he writes in The Big Sea (1940)...
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Poet, fiction writer, playwright, journalist, biographer, historian, anthologist, translator, and critic, Langston Hughes was one of the best known and most versatile black American writers of the twe...
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Possibly the most influential black American writer of the twentieth century, Langston Hughes set an example of self-determination and artistic integrity. Beginning in the Harlem Renaissance during th...
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Few writers become household names, yet such is the case of Langston Hughes , who was perhaps the most significant black American writer in the twentieth century. His poems, novels, short stories, dr...
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One of the most eminent black American writers and a literary figure of international renown, Langston Hughes was a serious and innovative artist who helped bring into the mainstream of American lit...
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Langston Hughes's reputation as one of the most innovative American poets may be one reason he has largely been ignored as a significant playwright. He did not primarily identify himself as a playwrig...
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American author Langston Hughes (1902-1967), a moving spirit in the artistic ferment of the 1920s often called the Harlem Renaissance, expressed the mind and spirit of most African Americans for nearl...
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"I didn't know the upper class Negroes well enough to write much about them," Langston Hughes said in The Big Sea. "I knew only the people I had grown up with, and they weren't people whose shoes were...
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Biography EssayAs a household name for so many readers of varying persuasions, Langston Hughes was perhaps the most significant black American writer in the twentieth century. From the Harlem Renaissa...
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Langston Hughes