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...began to write the essays for the Atlantic Monthly, World's Work, and other journals, that were later to be combined in his most famous work, The Souls of Black Folk. When this small book appeared in 1903 it had an enormous impact on Negroes. In the words of Langston Hughes, The Souls of Black Folk "was like a Bible to thousands of Negro students, writers, intellectuals, and just plain ordinary people...
...attempt to explore and revive these origins is illustrated in a new anthology, Poems from Black Africa (Indiana University Press; $4.95), edited by U.S. Negro Poet Langston Hughes. Some of the poets are self-consciously primitive, and a few of the English-speaking ones write with echoes of T. S. Eliot or Gerard Manley Hopkins. But they are also busy transcribing and translating traditional folk poetry and evolving what Anthologist Hughes hopefully describes as a literature that "walks with grace and already is beginning to achieve an individuality quite...
...season, when Alfred Drake will star in Zenda, which takes some liberties with the original novel: the English gentleman hero is now a song and dance man on tour (Nov. 26). Budd Schulberg has turned his novel What Makes Sammy Run? into a musical (Feb. 4). And Negro Novelist Langston Hughes has adapted his Tambourines to Glory for musical presentation as well, wherein two Negro women establish a church in Harlem (Oct. 26). Before his death, Clifford Odets completed the book-adaptation of his Golden...
...LANGSTON HUGHES, poet Litt.D...
...plays dealing with racial themes use them only as salespoints: Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious and Langston Hughes' Black Nativity are fine works. Indeed, Davis' satiric comedy is the only show on Broadway that is eminently worth seeing...