The Only Use of
Langston Hughes
in
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Although I enjoyed and respected Kipling, Poe, Butler, Thackeray and Henley, I saved my young and loyal passion for Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois' "Litany at Atlanta."†
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Definition:
U.S. writer best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance (1902-1967)