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Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Introduction to Hughes
Death
Poetry
- Hughes died from surgical complications relating to his prostate cancer.
- His ashes are buried beneath this tile mosaic in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY.
- Hughes wrote of modern, urban black life.
- He modeled his stanzas on the improvisatory rhythms of jazz music and adapted the vocabulary of everyday black speech to poetry.
- Hughes' poems demanded that African Americans be acknowledged as owners of the culture they gave to the United States.
Why Langson?
Harlem Renaissance
- In the 1920s, Harlem experienced monumental changes culturally, socially, and artistically.
- Hughes is one of the most popular and versatile of writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Biography
-By the time of his death, Hughes had become one of the most important writers in American history and had influenced a new generation of black writers.
-Hughes is widely regarded as “the Bard of Harlem” for vividly capturing the literary ethos and artistic spirit of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s.
-He remains perhaps the most widely read black poet, a “poet of the people,” as his words articulated the hopes, fears, dreams, struggles and aspirations of an entire nation during most of the twentieth century.
1902-1967
- Though born in Joplin, Missouri, he lived in Detroit and Cleveland growing up.
- He started writing poetry in high school.
- Hughes attended Columbia University in 1920 for one year, but soon after worked as a seaman, at a nightclub in Paris, and as a busboy in D.C., all the while writing and publishing poetry.
- He became involved in Communist Party in 1930s, which lead to him being listed as a security risk by the FBI in 1953.
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