533 Langston Hughes in Context (with Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed) | My Last Book with Melissa Homestead
The History of Literature
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Hughes's Thinking Changed Over Time
In the 20s he had really only published two books of poetry. He wasn't that old, he was born in 1902 and then we're going into the 30s. To work that circulated massively basically since the late 20s and very much in the early 30s when he came to Spain people were aware of the fact from having who he was or who he thought he was. That came much much later. We're talking about 50s and 60s.
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