The Poetry of the Negro: 1746-1970
by Langston Hughes (Editor) 
, Arna Bontemps (Editor)
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Yes, that is 1746. With Biographical information, and a quintile Section of "tributary" poems by non-Negroes (Blake, Wordsworth, Browning, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, Whitman, Robinson, Sandburg, Lindsay, Stedman, Benet, Bishop, Rukeyser, shapiro, etc. the quality of this list underlines the point that there is no 2d class race by any comparison).
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Langston Hughes, February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967 Langston Hughes, one of the foremost black writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Mo. Hughes briefly attended Columbia University before working numerous jobs including busboy, cook, and steward. While working as a busboy, he showed his poems to show more American poet Vachel Lindsay, who helped launch his career. He soon obtained a scholarship to Lincoln University and had several works published. Hughes is noted for his depictions of the black experience. In addition to the black dialect, he incorporated the rhythms of jazz and the blues into his poetry. While many recognized his talent, many blacks disapproved of his unflattering portrayal of black life. His numerous published volumes include, "The Weary Blues," "Fine Clothes to the Jew," and "Montage of a Dream Deferred." Hughes earned several awards during his lifetime including: a Guggenheim fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant, and a Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. Langston Hughes died of heart failure on May 22, 1967. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Arna Bontemps was one of many African American writers associated with Fisk University, where he taught for 20 years. He became a visiting professorship at Yale University and returned to Fisk to spend the last years of his life there. Bontemps grew up in the South and wrote of the condition and spirit of the southern black in memoirs and in show more fiction. His historical and topical novel Black Thunder (1936) is perhaps his best known, along with Drums at Dusk (1935). As an active leader in the Harlem Renaissance, however, Bontemps wrote prolifically in all genres and for children as well as adults. He produced several important collections of narratives about enslaved people and African American folk tales. Bontemps was a major anthologizer of Harlem Renaissance work and helped shape the new black writing as theoretician and critic. Bontemps died in 1973. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Poetry of the Negro: 1746-1970
- Original publication date
- 1970
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 811.008 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry Specific kinds of poetry {only by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions Collections of literary texts
- LCC
- PN6109.7 .H8 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature German Poetry
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