Modern American Poetry

(^392) Louis L. Martz 617–18. An interpretation of these changes has been given by Elizabeth Dodd in The Veiled Mirror and the W ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 393 The following commentary on Trilogyis substantially the same as the commentary that appeared in ...

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395 In 1940 Richard Wright, praising Langston Hughes’s contribution to the development of modern American literature, observed t ...

(^396) Anita Patterson Boogie” is that they do not offer a clearly recognizable, accurate record of experience that calls attent ...

The Poetry of Langston Hughes 397 nineteenth century, in North America the movement emerged in full force only with Howells’s ad ...

(^398) Anita Patterson engaged social criticism. Instead of using words that deceive us into seeing only their “transparency” an ...

The Poetry of Langston Hughes 399 conditions in which modern African American poetry emerged. In the postbellum South slavery wa ...

(^400) Anita Patterson Because self-referentiality penetrates a privileged arena, there is also the suggestion of trespass: the ...

The Poetry of Langston Hughes 401 classical myths but to a poetics of migration that had been used to impose order on and give s ...

(^402) Anita Patterson the lyric’s style affirms the individuality of both speaker and poet. The line breaks rhythmically emphas ...

The Poetry of Langston Hughes 403 Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy ...

(^404) Anita Patterson in this lyric he dramatizes how having the blues may undermine a poet’s belief in the modernist freedom t ...

The Poetry of Langston Hughes 405 Still as a whispering heartbeat. I toss Without rest in the darkness, Weary as the tired night ...

(^406) Anita Patterson single or double lines, and they seldom were expanded to quatrains or longer tales.^28 Gilroy argues that ...

The Poetry of Langston Hughes 407 Forty years before the Black Arts movement Hughes was writing poems that examined the tragic i ...

(^408) Anita Patterson To the old Sunday evenings, when darkness wandered outside And hymns gleamed on our warm lips, as we watc ...

The Poetry of Langston Hughes 409 German music; in England, France, and America musicians were encouraged to perform the works o ...

(^410) Anita Patterson Another American modernist, Hart Crane, examined how the violent history that gave rise to African Americ ...

The Poetry of Langston Hughes 411 early poems collected in the leather-bound notebook begun in 1909—some, such as “Opera,” “Firs ...