Langston Hughes Poetry Books

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Hughes identified it as his mission as a writer to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America. His poetry was heavily influenced by black oral tradition, jazz, and folklore, and he continually attempted to mirror the black experience, in...

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Hughes identified it as his mission as a writer to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America. His poetry was heavily Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.

The Poems

This second volume of the COLLECTED WORKS OF LANGSTON HUGHES presents the poems he wrote during and after World War II, when the political emphasis of his work expanded to encompass the implications of the war. Four volumes of his poetry are inclu... Cop

Let America Be America Again

A newly-illustrated edition of the classic poem, used extensively by John Kerry is his Presidential campaign.
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Let America Be America Again

A Vintage Original

“I believe in an America in which opportunity and justice truly are for all. That was the Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.

Poems/Hughes

Hughes (1902-1969) described his mission as a writer to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America. His poetry was heavily influenced by black oral tradition, jazz, and folklore, and he continually attempted to mirror the black experien... Cop

The Panther and the Lash

The last and most explicitly political book of verse by one of the great poets of our century. Published just before his death in 1967, Hughes' sometimes bitter, sometimes ironic, but always powerful poems address the racial politics of the 1960s. Copyri

The Poems

Hughes (1902-1969) described his mission as a writer to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America. His poetry was heavily influenced by black oral tradition, jazz, and folklore, and he continually attempted to mirror the black experien... Cop

The Sweet and Sour Animal Book

Poetic descriptions of 26 animals--one for each letter of the alphabet. Color illustrations accompany the short verses, which celebrate such creatures as bees, unicorns, and zebras. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserv

Poems of New York

This collection covers the city, from Harlem (Langston Hughes) to midtown (Dorothy Parker) to the Village (e.e. cummings), and i Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.