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Description edit
This generous volume is a genuine literary milestone, the first comprehensive collection of the verse of a writer who has been called both the poet laureate of African America and our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. The book contains 860 poems, including all the verse that Hughes... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Langston Hughes: Add a description of this character.
- Jim Crow
- Black
- Roosevelt
- Lawd
- Mary
- Madam
- John Brown
- Ozie Powell
- Tom Mooney
- Mama
- Sam Solomon
- Dixie
- Lenin
- Johnson
- Pierrot
- Mister Backlash
- White
- Joe Louis
- Hitler
- Lincoln
- Bessie
- Harriet Tubman
- Paul Robeson
- Baby
- Big Buddy
- Harry Moore
- Will
- Frederick Douglass
- Jan Meyerowitz
- Said Simple John
- Albert
- Mead
- Little Sallie
- Dark
- Lumumba
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Arabella
- Marian Anderson
- Dodd
- Richard Wright
Setting & Locations edit
- Harlem
- America
- Africa
- Spain
- New York
- Chicago
- U.s.a.
- Paris
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Stalingrad
- China
- Haiti
- Freedom Train
- Washington
- Ethiopia
- Mississippi
- France
- Madrid
- Cuba
- West Indies
- India
- Texas
- Manhattan
- Russia
- Ohio
- Mexico
- Ghana
- Down South
- California
- Waldorf-astoria
- Los Angeles
- Kansas
- England
- Senegal
- Jamestown
- Congo
- Nigeria
- Moscow
- London
- San Francisco
- Carmel
- Atlanta
- Taos
- Europe
- Jordan
- Scottsboro
- Italy
Authors & Contributors edit
- Langston Hughes (Author)
- Arnold Rampersad (Editor)
- David Roessel (Co-Editor)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0679426310
Page Count: 736
Publisher: Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0679426310
Page Count: 736
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 811.52
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Poetry › African American
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Poetry › 20th Century
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › African American › Hughes, Langston
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( H ) › Hughes, Langston
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Single Authors › United States
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