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Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)by Langston Hughes
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From the selected works of such celebrated and beloved poets as W. H. Auden, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and William Shakespeare, to anthologies on Jazz and Blues and Beat Poets, to collections on the timeless themes of love and marriage, friendship and motherhood, the Everymans Library Pocket Poets set has it all. Theres something for everyone to enjoy in this 75-volume set, from Animal Poems to Zen Poems. Each book comes in an elegant 256-page pocket-sized hardcover edition (4 1/8" x 6 1/4"), with full-cloth covers, lovely illustrated and jewel-tone jackets, silk ribbon markers, and gold stamping. Perfect for your home library, or as a gift for any occasion. This set includes one each of the following titles: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry edited by Peter Washington Animal Poems edited by John Hollander Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova Auden: Poems by W. H. Auden Baudelaire: Poems by Charles Baudelaire Beat Poets edited by Carmela Ciuraru Blake: Poems by William Blake Blues Poems edited by Kevin Young Browning: Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Byron: Poems by Lord Byron, G. Gordon Chinese Erotic Poems edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping Christmas Poems edited by Peter Washington Coleridge: Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comic Poems edited by Peter Washington Conversation Pieces by Kurt Brown The Dance edited by Emily Fragos Dickinson: Poems by Emily Dickinson Doggerel edited by Carmela Ciuraru Donne: Poems by John Donne Eliot: Poems by T. S. Eliot Emerson: Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson Emily Bronte: Poems by Emily Bronte Erotic Poems edited by Peter Washington Eugene Onegin and Other Poems by Alexander Pushkin Fatherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru Friendship Poems edited by Peter Washington Frost: Poems by Robert Frost Garden Poems edited by John Hollander The Great Cat edited by Emily Fragos Haiku edited by Peter Washington Hardy: Poems by Thomas Hardy Herbert: Poems by George Herbert Hopkins: Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins Hughes: Poems by Langston Hughes Indian Love Poems edited by Meena Alexander Jazz Poems edited by Kevin Young Keats: Poems by John Keats Kipling: Poems by Rudyard Kipling Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Love Letters edited by Peter Washington Love Poems edited by Peter Washington Love Songs and Sonnets edited by Peter Washington Love Speaks Its Name by J. D. McClatchy Lullabies and Poems for Children edited by Diana Secker Larson Marriage Poems edited by John Hollander Marvell: Poems by Andrew Marvell Milton: Poems by John Milton Motherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru On Wings of Song by J. D. McClatchy Persian Poets edited by Peter Washington Plath: Poems by Sylvia Plath Poe: Poems by Edgar Allen Poe Poems Bewitched and Haunted edited by John Hollander Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems by Robert Burns Poems of Mourning edited by Peter Washington Poems of New York edited by Elizabeth Schmidt Poems of Sleep and Dreams edited by Peter Washington Poems of the American West edited by Robert Mezey Poems of the Sea by J. D. McClatchy Prayers edited by Peter Washington Rilke: Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke Rimbaud: Poems by Arthur Rimbaud The Roman Poets edited by Peter Washington Rossetti: Poems by Christina Rossetti Shakespeare: Poems by William Shakespeart Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley Solitude edited by Carmela Ciuraru Sonnets edited by John Hollander Stevens: Poems by Wallace Stevens Tennyson: Poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson War Poems edited by Peter Washington Whitman: Poems by Walt Whitman Wordsworth: Poems by William Wordsworth Zen Poems edited by Peter Harris Everymans Library continues to maintain its original commitment to publishing the most significant world literature in editions that reflect a tradition of fine bookmaking. Everymans Library pursues the highest standards, utilizing modern prepress, printing, and binding technologies to produce classically designed books printed on acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper and including Smyth-sewn, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines. Synopsis:From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a treasure-an essential collection of the work of a poet whose words have entered our common language. About the AuthorLangston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then a year studying at Columbia University. His first poem in a nationally known magazine was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," which appeared in Crisis in 1921. In 1925, he was awarded the First Prize for Poetry of the magazine Opportunity, the winning poem being "The Weary Blues," which gave its title to his first book of poems, published in 1926. As a result of his poetry, Mr. Hughes received a scholarship at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he won his B.A. in 1929. In 1943, he was awarded an honorary Litt.D. by his alma mater; he has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1935), a Rosenwald Fellowship (1940), and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant (1947). From 1926 until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes devoted his time to writing and lecturing. He wrote poetry, short stories, autobiography, song lyrics, essays, humor, and plays. A cross section of his work was published in 1958 as The Langston Hughes Reader. Table of ContentsPOEMS OF FIVE DECADES The Negro Speaks of Rivers Aunt Sues Stories Negro Danse Africaine Song for a Banjo Dance Mother to Son When Sue Wears Red Jazzonia Prayer Meeting My People Migration Lament for Dark Peoples Youth Dream Variations Johannesburg Mines Negro Dancers I, Too The Weary Blues To Midnight Nan at Leroys Soledad Cross Summer Night Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret Midwinter Blues Ma Man Lament over Love Homesick Blues Ruby Brown Elevator Boy Bound Noth Blues Feet o Jesus Beale Street Love A House in Taos Railroad Avenue Saturday Night Midnight Dancer Blues Fantasy Lenox Avenue: Midnight Spirituals Fire Moan Angels Wings Baby Red Silk Stockings Young Gals Blues Magnolia Flowers Hurt Aesthete in Harlem Afro-American Fragment Black Seed To Certain Negro Leaders October 16: The Raid Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria Florida Road Workers Always the Same Letter to the Academy Personal Cubes Madrid Let America Be America Again Genius Child Poet to Patron Visitors to the Black Belt Note on Commercial Theatre Seven Moments of Love Daybreak in Alabama Evenin Air Blues Sunset in Dixie Me and the Mule Merry-Go-Round Ku Klux Reverie on the Harlem River Words Like Freedom Red Cross Silhouette Still Here Moonlight in Valencia: Civil War Madams Past History Madams Calling Cards Madam and Her Might-Have-Been Madam and the Phone Bill Madam and the Fortune Teller Heart Graduation Freedom Train Trumpet Player Life Is Fine Harlem [1] Mama and Daughter Third Degree Interne at Provident American Heartbreak Envoy to Africa Old Walt In Explanation of Our Times Memo to Non-White Peoples Jim Crow Car Go Slow Junior Addict Final Call Long View: Negro Birmingham Sunday Sweet Words on Race MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED Dream Boogie Parade Childrens Rhymes Sister Preference Necessity Question Buddy Juke Box Love Song Ultimatum Warning Croon New Yorkers Wonder Easy Boogie Movies Tell Me Not a Movie Neon Signs Numbers What? So Soon! Motto Dead in There Situation Dancer Advice Green Memory Wine-O Relief Ballad of the Landlord Corner Meeting Projection Flatted Fifths Tomorrow Mellow Live and Let Live Gauge Bar Cafe´: 3 a.m. Drunkard Street Song 125th Street Dive Warning: Augmented Up-Beat Jam Session Be-Bop Boys Tag Theme for English B College Formal: Renaissance Casino Low to High Boogie: 1 a.m. High to Low Ladys Boogie So Long Deferred Request Shame on You World War II Mystery Sliver of Sermon Testimonial Passing Nightmare Boogie Sunday by the Combination Casualty Night Funeral in Harlem Blues at Dawn Dime Argument Neighbor Evening Song Chord Fact Joe Louis Subway Rush Hour Brothers Likewise Sliver Hope Dream Boogie: Variation Harlem [2] Good Morning Same in Blues Comment on Curb Letter Island Index of First Lines What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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