Langston Hughes

ü an outstanding Negro poet

ü the main figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

Themes:

ü his concern is with his race (griefs, consoling joys)

Style:

ü used folk speech and songs of Negroes;

ü made highly literate the use of the popular ballads and the Blues; Blues-poems written after the manner of Negro folklore. They have a strict poetic structure: the first line is repeated twice, the second line may be slightly changed; the third line is rhymed with the first two.

Main works:

Collections of poems “The Dream Keeper”, “Homesick Blues” “Poem”, “Shakespeare in Harlem”.

Poems:

Harlem Renaissance - “Harlem” is mentioned in the fiction and poetry of the 1920’s, the era of the so-called period.