Download Langston Hughes City Poem Pics. While langston hughes wrote a myriad of plays, short stories, and essays, he is primarily known for his poetry, especially the verses he in 1926, the new york herald tribune described langston hughes's poems as always intensely subjective, passionate, keenly sensitive to beauty and. Langston hughes was a central figure in the harlem renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the… langston hughes.
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♦ to explain how langston hughes used poetry to comment on american political and social issues. Langston hughes was a poet and social activist known as one of the leaders of the harlem renaissance. Hughes grew up as a poor boy from missouri. Poems are available on langston hughes poems on the academy of.