In the final couplet, Hughes says this, "Beautiful, also, is the sun. ... Langston Hughes firmly believed that African Americans and Caucasian Americans could with time grow together to form an interracial country. ... Langston Hughes composed an essay entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" in which he "described the mountain as "this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and be as little Negro and as much American as possible" (The Nation 692-694) Although Hughes did not have a longing to turn i...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes- Initially known in the Boston area for his cultured, witty verse, the American physician and writer gained wider popularity with the publication of his essays in 1858. ... Langston Hughes (1902-1967) - American writer, known for the use of jazz and black folk rhythms in his poetry. James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and educated at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. ... There, in 1925, his literary skills were discovered after he left three of his poems beside the plate of American poet Vachel Lindsay, who recognized Hughes's abilities and s...

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One writer that is widely popular is Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote literary types of writing like poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. ... He published an essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," where he introduced to the people black literary identity. ... Although, there were controversy between the white publishers and the audience, there were writers like Hughes that supported the idea and said "artists intended to express themselves freely, no matter what the black public or white public thought." ...

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