Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Hughes, Langston

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852421274 ISBN 13 : 9781852421274

Editeur : Serpent's Tail, 1999

Synopsis

For over 40 years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. Selected Poems is made up of Hughes' own choice of his poetry, published first in 1959. It includes all of Hughes' best known poems including 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 'The Weary Blues', 'Song for Billie Holiday', 'Black Maria', 'Magnolia Flowers', 'Lunch in a Jim Crow Car' and 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'. With the advantage of hindsight, it is now easy to see that - for his poems, his jazz lyrics, and his prose - Langston Hughes was one of the great artists of the 20th century.

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À propos de l?auteur

Langston Hughes was born in 1902. His first poem in a nationally known magazine was 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' which appeared in Crisis in 1921. In 1925, Hughes was awarded the first Prize for Poetry by Opportunity magazines for his poem 'The Weary Blue' which gave its title to his first book of poems, published in 1926. He wrote poetry, short stories, song lyrics, essays, humour and plays, and an autobiography, The Big Sea.

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Selected Poems by Langston Hughes

Leadtext: The Negro Speaks of Rivers

I've known rivers:



I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the



flow of human blood in human veins.



My soul has grown deep like the rivers.



I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.



I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.



I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.



I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln



went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy



bosom turn all golden in the sunset.



I've known rivers:



Ancient, dusky rivers.



My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Serpent's Tail
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852421274
• ISBN 13: 9781852421274
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible