Nearly a century after his birth in Joplin, Missouri, Langston
Hughes is, in a sense, coming home. The University of Missouri
Press is proud to announce the publication of The Collected Works
of Langston Hughes, a compilation of the novels, short stories,
poems, plays, and essays by one of the twentieth century's most
prolific and influential African American authors. The
sixteen-volume series will make available Hughes's most famous
works as well as less well known and out-of-print selections,
providing readers and libraries with a comprehensive source for the
first time.
Hughes moved to Harlem in the 1920s and ultimately became the
most prominent figure in the literary, artistic, and intellectual
phenomenon known as the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes wrote articles
for The Crisis and in 1926 published his first book of poetry, The
Weary Blues. Over the decades until his death in 1967, he became
one of the best-known and most versatile American writers of the
twentieth century. His creative range -- poetry, novels, short
fiction, drama, translations, gospel-song plays, libretti, juvenile
fiction, radio and television scripts, history, biography, and
autobiography -- is unique in American letters.
The sixteen volumes of the Collected Works are to be published
with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making
his books available to the people. Each volume will include a
biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well
as an introduction by a Hughes scholar. The volume introductions
will provide contextual and historical information on the
particular work.
Volume 1 includes the complete texts of Hughes s first book, The
Weary Blues (1926), and hissecond, Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927),
as well as other poems published by him during and after the Harlem
Renaissance. The Weary Blues announced the arrival of a rare voice
in American poetry. A literary descendant of Wait Whitman ("I, too,
sing America", Hughes wrote), he chanted the joys and sorrows of
black America in unprecedented language. A gifted lyricist, he
offered rhythms and cadences that epitomized the particularities of
African American creativity, especially jazz and the blues. His
second volume, steeped in the blues and controversial because of
its frankness, confirmed Hughes as a poet of uncompromising
integrity. Then, in the 1930s especially, came the radical poetry
included in Dear Lovely Death (1934) and A New Song (1938). For
example, "Good Morning Revolution" and "Let America Be America
Again" made his pen one of the most forceful in America during the
Great Depression.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Missouri Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 2001 |
| First published: |
June 2001 |
| Authors: |
Langston Hughes
|
| Volume editors: |
Arnold Rampersad
|
| Introduction by: |
Arnold Rampersad
|
| Dimensions: |
236 x 157 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
280 |
| Edition: |
c2001-<c2002 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8262-1339-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8262-1339-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780826213396 |
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