James langston hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was a member of an abolitionist family. He is the great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston and the brother of John Mercer Langston, who was the first African-American to be elected to public office. The time was 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began to write poetry in the eighth grade and was selected as a class poet. His father thinks that he can't make a living by writing, and encourages him to pursue a more practical career. He paid for his son's tuition at Columbia University on the grounds that he studied engineering. After a short time, Langston withdrew from the project with an average score of B+. At the same time, he continued to write poems. The first poem he published was also one of his most famous poems, "Black people talk about rivers", which appeared in Brownie's book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays and short stories appeared in NAACP publications Crisis Magazine, Opportunity Magazine and other publications.
One of Hughes' best papers was published in the issue of 1926 of The Nation, entitled Black Artists and the Mountain of Race. It talks about black writers and poets. "They will give up their racial pride in the name of false integration." A talented black writer prefers to be regarded as a poet rather than a black poet, which means to Hughes that he subconsciously wants to write like a white poet. Hughes believes that "no great poet is afraid to be himself." In this article, he wrote, "We young black artists now intend to show our dark-skinned selves without fear or scruple. If white people are happy, we are also happy. If not, it doesn't matter. We know that we are beautiful. It's ugly, too ... If colored people are happy, so are we. If they are not, their unhappiness doesn't matter. We build our temple for tomorrow, as strong as we know. We stand on the top of the mountain and are free inside. "
In 1923, Hughes traveled abroad by cargo ship, and went to Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Belgium, Congo, Angola and Guinea in Africa, and later went to Italy, France, Russia and Spain. Whether abroad, in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, new york, one of his favorite pastimes is sitting in a club listening to blues, jazz and writing poems. Through these experiences, his creation appeared a new rhythm, and he created a series of poems, such as Tired Bruce. He returned to Harlem on 1924, a period known as harlem renaissance. During this period, his works were published frequently and his writing was very prosperous. 1925, he moved to Washington, D.C., and still spent more time in blues and jazz clubs. He said, "I try to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street ... (These songs) have the pulse of people who are constantly moving forward." At the same time, Hughes accepted the job of Dr. Carter G. Wooderson, editor of Black Life and History Magazine and founder of 1926 Black History Week. Later that year, he returned to his beloved Harlem.
Langston hughes received a scholarship from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and received a bachelor's degree at 1929. 1943, he was awarded honorary literature. D by the alma mater; Guggenheim Scholarship 1935 and Rosenwald Scholarship 1940. According to his conversation with a man in a bar in Harlem, he created a character in a series of essays in the form of dialogue and was called my simple-minded friend. 1950, he named this lovely character Jess B. Simple and wrote a series of books on him.
Langston hughes is a prolific writer. From the time he wrote his first book in 1926 to his death in 1967, he devoted his life to writing and speaking. He has written sixteen poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" novels, twenty plays, children's poems, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio and television plays and dozens of magazine articles. In addition, he edited seven anthologies. Hughes' long list of outstanding works includes: Not Without Laughter (1930); The sea (1940); I wonder while wandering "(1956), his autobiography. His poetry collections include: Tired Bruce (1926); Black mothers and other drama recitations (1931); Dream Guardian (1932); Shakespeare in Harlem (1942); Magic field (1947); One way ticket (1947); The first jazz book (1955); Tambourine to glory (1958); And selected poems (1959); The simplest (196 1). He edited several anthologies in an attempt to promote black writers and their works. Some of them are: African Ministry of Finance (1960); Poetry in Black Africa (1963); New Black Poets: Best Short Stories by American (1964) and Black Writers (1967).
Published after his death are: five plays by langston hughes (1968); Panther and Whip: Poetry of Our Times (1969) and Good Morning Revolution: Collected Works of Social Protests (1973); The Sweet flypaper of Roy Decalaval's Life (1984).
Langston hughes died of cancer on May 22nd, 1967. His residence at No.20, East127th Street, Harlem District, new york has been awarded the status of landmark building by the new york Municipal Protection Committee. His block on East127th Street was renamed "langston hughes Square".
dream
Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
Because if the dream is shattered,
Life is a bird with broken wings.
It can't fly.
Hold fast to dreams
Because when dreams disappear,
Life is a barren land.
Ice and snow are frozen.
Selected from the poems of langston hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf /Vintage. Copyright? 1994 by Langston Hughes' legacy. Harold Ober Associates Incorporated reprinted with permission. property in copyright
Black people talk about rivers.
Langston Hughes
I know Rivers:
I know that rivers are as old as the world, even older than the flow of human blood in rivers.
My soul is as deep as a river.
At dawn, I bathed in the Euphrates River.
I built my hut near Congo and it put me to sleep.
I looked at the Nile and built a pyramid on it.
When Abel Lincoln went to New Orleans, I heard the singing of the Mississippi River, and I also saw its muddy chest turn golden in the sunset.
I know Rivers:
An ancient and dim river.
My soul is as deep as a river.
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Dream: Dream (in Chinese and English)
Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
Because if the dream is shattered,
Life is a bird with broken wings.
It can't fly.
Hold fast to dreams
If the dream is shattered,
Life is like a bird with broken wings.
Never fly again.
Hold fast to dreams
Because when dreams disappear,
Life is a barren land.
Ice and snow are frozen.
Hold fast to dreams
If the dream is lost,
Life is like a barren wilderness.
Snow is covered with ice, and everything no longer grows.
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