He is the singer, philosopher, the folk and urban lyricist. Review Quotes Langston Hughes is the Jazz Poet! The constant communicator of Blues. Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction to The Big Sea, an American classic: This is American writing at its best-simpler than Hemingway as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer.Mark Twain. In Harlem he was a rising young poet-at the center of the Harlem Renaissance. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade-Harlem and Paris.
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. Book Synopsis Introduction by Arnold Rampersad. About the Book This book chronicles the life of Hughes, who came of age early in the 1920s in the two great playgrounds of the decade: Harlem and Paris.
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