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Langston Hughes
(1902-1967)
African American poet, playwright, and short story writer
Author's life and works
“Biography: Langston Hughes” From An Introduction to Poetry
Literature Online biography
“Explorations: Langston Hughes” From Norton Antology of American Literature
Langston Hughes from Books and Writers
Listen to the rhythms of blues from the Smithsonian Institution
On the Poetry
The full text of many poems can be found at Literature Online
Audio file of Langston Hughes reading “The Negro Speaks of Rivers“
Extracts of critical views on “The Negro Speaks of Rivers" from Modern American Poetry
"Overview: `The Negro Speaks of Rivers'"
Literature Resource Center, Gale Research, 1999.
“Overview: ‘Mother to Son’", by Langston Hughes
from Poetry for Students, Vol. 3, Gale Research, 1998.
"Overview: ‘Dream Variations’" from Poetry for Students, Vol. 15, Gale, 2002.
Audio file of Langston Hughes reading “I, Too“
“The Weary Blues” Read by Nikki Giovanni.
“The Weary Blues “ Extract of Langston Hughes Hughes reading to jazz music, Charles Mingus, Leonard Feather, Horace Parlan. Recording from 1958.
“Overview: ‘The Weary Blues’" from Literature Resource Center, Gale Research, 1999.
Extracts of critical views on “The Weary Blues“ from Modern American Poetry
Extracts of critical views on “*Ku Klux“ from Modern American Poetry
"Overviw: ‘Theme for English B’" in Poetry for Students, Vol. 6, Gale, 1999.
"Overview: ‘Harlem’" by Langston Hughes
“Hughes's ‘Harlem.’” by Tom Hansen, from Explicator, Winter 2000
Extracts of critical views on “Harlem“ from Modern American Poetry
Various criticism
"These old writing paper Blues: the Blues stanza and literary poetry." by Karen J. Ford, from College Literature, Oct 1997
"Voice, dialogue, and community: in search of the 'Other' in African-American texts." by Mary L. Bogumil, from American Journal of Semiotics: a quarterly research publication of the Semiotic Soc. of America, 1994
"Langston Hughes and Approaches to Modernism in the Harlem Renaissance”
by Arnold Rampersad, from The Harlem Renaissance: Revaluations, Garland Publishing, 1989, pp. 49-72.
"Jazzing it up: the be-bop Modernism of Langston Hughes." by Robert O'Brian Hokanson, from Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, Dec 1998
Links
The Harlem Renaissance By Steven Watson, Excerpts: pages 124-144
“The Music in Poetry, Ballad and Blues Stanzas” from the Smithsonian Institution
Hear extracts of Hughes reading
“The Story of the Blues”
“The weary Blues”
“Homesick blues”
The rhythm of blues
Langston Hughes At Modern American Poetry
Langston Hughes At Voices and Visions of American Poets
”The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” By Langston Hughes, from The Nation, 23 June 1926
“Finding a Voice in America" A Literature Unit on the Harlem Renaissance (This unit is designed to help students who are not African-American "step inside" the African-American experience, beginning with the Middle Passage; explore blues and jazz; and explore the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, and A Raisin in the Sun through a variety of activities and links.)
The Harlem Renaissance created by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson, 6/01.
Hughes Biographical Page from the Academy of American Poets
Langston Hughes at Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
African American links
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