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Description:A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing - a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience - poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliography, and a commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic who is the editor of *The Yale Review.Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) was a writer of astonishing range. Poetry, fiction, plays, autobiography, essays, libretti for opera and Broadway musicals, and cantatas - works streamed from his desk. It is as a poet, though, that he is best known, and his place at the center of the Harlem Renaissance was enormously influential. He was the first African American to write civil-rights protest poetry, as well as the first to use jazz and the blues as a basis for a literary style. Few poets have ever portrayed so vividly the black experience, its triumphs and travails, and in a language that cunningly dramatizes the folk vernacular. Hughes was born in Missouri, worked as manual laborer and traveled the world - the better, in the end, to know intimately the realities of urban life for the displaced and rootless. He wrote with eloquence, humor, and a deep humanity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes. To get started finding The Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 64

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Random House, Inc

Release: 2005

ISBN: 1415920362

Description: A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing - a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience - poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliography, and a commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic who is the editor of *The Yale Review.Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) was a writer of astonishing range. Poetry, fiction, plays, autobiography, essays, libretti for opera and Broadway musicals, and cantatas - works streamed from his desk. It is as a poet, though, that he is best known, and his place at the center of the Harlem Renaissance was enormously influential. He was the first African American to write civil-rights protest poetry, as well as the first to use jazz and the blues as a basis for a literary style. Few poets have ever portrayed so vividly the black experience, its triumphs and travails, and in a language that cunningly dramatizes the folk vernacular. Hughes was born in Missouri, worked as manual laborer and traveled the world - the better, in the end, to know intimately the realities of urban life for the displaced and rootless. He wrote with eloquence, humor, and a deep humanity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes. To get started finding The Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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