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Tham khảo tài liệu 'delta's key to the next generation toefl test part 17', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Quiz 3 Langston Hughes Among the many talented African American writers connected with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s Langston Hughes was the most popular in his time. His two most important achievements were the incorporation of the rhythms of black music into his poetry and the creation of an authentic black folk speaker in the character of Jesse B. Semple. Through both poetry and storytelling Hughes captured in written form the dominant oral and improvisatory traditions of black culture. Langston Hughes was born in Missouri in 1902. He began to write poetry in high school and later attended Columbia University in New York. After one year at university Hughes commenced a nomadic life in the United States and Europe. He shipped out as a merchant marine and worked in a Paris nightclub all the while writing and publishing poetry. His prolific literary career was launched in 1926 with the publication of his first book. The Weary Blues a collection of poems on African American themes set to rhythms from jazz and blues. His first novel appeared in 1930 and from that point on Hughes was known as the bard of Harlem. In the activist 1930s Hughes was a public figure. He worked as a journalist published works in several media and founded African American theaters in New York Chicago and Los Angeles. Hughes s concern with race mainly in an urban setting is evident in his poetry plays screenplays novels and short stories. His poetry includes lyrics about black life and black pride as well as poems of racial protest. His major prose writings are those concerned with the character Jesse B. Semple a shrewd but supposedly ignorant Harlem resident nicknamed Simple. Simple was a wise fool an honest man who saw through sham and spoke plainly. The Simple stories were originally published as newspaper sketches and later collected in five book volumes. By the 1960s readers preferred themes that reflected the struggles of the times and Hughes s writings were overshadowed