The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950
- ISBN-10
- 0826213405
- ISBN-13
- 9780826213402
- Series
- The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Authors
- Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders
Description
Volume 2 includes the books Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943), Fields of Wonder (1947), and One-Way Ticket (1949). Starting around 1940, Hughes turned away from radical socialism toward strong support for the national war effort; as a poet, he resumed his experimentation in the blues, as Shakespeare in Harlem brilliantly demonstrates. With this change in political emphasis came a renewed commitment to the achievement of civil rights for blacks, which Jim Crow's Last Stand vigorously asserts. In contrast, Fields of Wonder was Hughes's only book devoted almost entirely to lyric verse; but the next volume, One-Way Ticket, restored the balance that was essential to his creative expression as a poet.
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