1. Langston Hughes
During these years, he had odd jobs as an assistant cook, launderer, and a busboy, and traveled to Africa and Europe working as a seaman. ... Unlike other important black poets of the period "Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen--Hughes refused to tell apart between his personal experience and the same experience of black America. ...
- Word Count: 534
- Approx Pages: 2
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School