The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · October 31, 1995
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- Who it’s for
- Read Hughes’s lifetime of poems in broad chronological order, from familiar work to rarely collected verse.
- Genres
- African American Poetry, American Poetry, African American Literary Collections
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, October 31, 1995
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The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture” (OPRAH Magazine). 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.
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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. The collection spans five decades, and is comprised of 868 poems (nearly 300 of which never before appeared in book form) with annotations by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. Alongside such famous works as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes Hughes's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as "Goodbye Christ" that were once suppressed.
A Poet Across Decades
Read Hughes’s lifetime of poems in broad chronological order, from familiar work to rarely collected verse.
Come here for
- A wide-ranging view of Hughes’s poetry and its changing concerns
- Familiar poems alongside verse for children and once-suppressed work
Expect
- 868 poems spanning five decades
- Annotations by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel
Where it sits
| African American Poetry | 93% |
|---|---|
| American Poetry | 76% |
| African American Literary Collections | 70% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- African American Poetry
- Poetry About Death
- Place Poetry
- Authors
- Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- October 31, 1995
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- African American Poetry