ABSTRACT
Langston Hughes is best known as the "poet laureate" of theHarlem Renaissance, an African-American literary movement that flourished in the 1920s. Hughes had a prolific career as a poet, publishing seven books of poetry, four pamphlets of poetry, and numerous miscellaneous poems. His reputation has been based largely on the poetry he published in the 1920s, although the poems he published after the Harlem Renaissance have increasingly received critical acclaim and demonstrate his range as a poet.
