The Weary Blues
poetry by Hughes
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African American literature
- In African American literature: Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen
…jazz and blues poetry in The Weary Blues (1926) and Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927). While McKay and Hughes embraced the rank and file of Black America and proudly identified themselves as Black poets, Cullen sought success through writing in traditional forms and employing a lyricism informed by the…
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discussed in biography
- In Langston Hughes
…that Knopf would publish as The Weary Blues in 1926.
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“Dream Variation”
- In Dream Variation
…Hughes, published in 1926 in The Weary Blues, his first poetry collection. The poem articulates the dream of African Americans as the speaker yearns for freedom and for acceptance in American society.
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