... his life and influenced his works. Other people influenced Langston's life in addition his grandmother. Some included Paul Laurence Dumber, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, and Claude McKay. Paul Laurence Dumber was known as "master of dialect and standard verse." Hughes referred to Carl Sandburg as "my guiding star." He guided Hughes toward verse and a radically democratic modernist aesthetic. Claude McKay was a radical ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... his high school years, Langston lived in basements and attics. At his high school, he wrote poems for their newspaper the Belfry Owl. Langston tried to write his poems like Carl Sandburg. He wrote poems about love, about the steel mills where his stepfather worked, the poverty he lived in, and the girls from the south. In high school, Langston was ... ...

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... ; Zora Neale Hurston). Hurston was crushed. She felt betrayed by her own community. The stress was detrimental to her mental health and she became suicidal. She wrote to her friend Carl Van Vechten: "No acquittal will persuade some people that I am innocent. All that I have believed in has failed me. I have resolved to die." With support from some of ... ...

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... education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania three years later. In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature. Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. He wrote novels ... ...

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... beside the plate of American poet Vachel Lindsay who recognized Hughes abilities and subsequently helped publicize Hughes work. Hughes never married and several of his friends were homosexual, among them Carl Van Vechten, who wrote the controversial novel Nigger Heaven (1926) therefore causing an unrelevant speculation about his sexuality. Hughes wrote in many genres, but he is best known for his ... ...

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... . There he attended Central High School, and met newly arrived immigrant children from Poland, Russian, and Germany. In school he enjoyed the work read to him by his teachers of Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsey, and Edgar Lee Masters. In the summers following he spent with his father in Mexico, where he taught school and received his first publishing opportunity in The ... ...

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... been translated into German, French, Spanish, Russian, Yiddish and Czech. John Alden Carpenter, William Grant Still and others have set many of them to music. Langston claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his inspirations for being a poet. Hughes is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the 20's to the 60's. Unlike ... ...

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... with his mother, who now was remarried. The family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, for his stepfathers work. Langston was interested in poetry, but it was when he found poems by Carl Sandbury, when he became seriously influenced by the un-rhyming, free verse style. After graduating from a highschool in Cleveland, Langston spent a year with his father who had light skin, there ... ...

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... . These include, but are not limited to, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter White. W.E.B. Du Bois, in his book The Souls of Black Folk, rejected famed black educator Booker T. Washington's strategies of accommodation and compromise with whites in politics ... ...

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... University in Pennsylvania three years later. In 1930 his first novel, Not without Laughter, in which he won the Harmon gold medal for literature. Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his influences, which helped him make him known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. He ... ...

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... creak their work. In 1927 she converted her mansion on west 136th street into a club called The Dark Tower that showcased different kinds of art work. A young white aristocrat named Carl Van Vetchen also funded many artists. Bessie Smith was an incredibly popular Blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance. She employed suggestive lyrics coupled with a slow, sentious sound that earned her ... ...

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... through their art endeavored to resolve some of the problems arising from it. Another point we should consider is the fact that there were not only black writers in Harlem, Carl van Vechten, who published Nigger Heaven, was a white writer and he was very famous, too. But I will not concentrate on the fact that white writers took part in this movement ... ...

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... And be ashamed " I, too am America. In 1916, Hughes moved to Cleveland to live with his mom and stepfather. Hughes wrote in the styles of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Carl Sandburg and submitted them to the school magazine, the Belfry Owl. It was at this time that Hughes was strongly influenced by Guy de Maupassant. Maupassant inspired him to want ... ...

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... Blues" II. Return to college a. Attended the first African American College 1. Attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania b. Returned as an acclaimed poet III. Hughes mentors for writing a. Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Carl Sandburg were his primary influences b. Began writing creatively while still a boy 1. Contributed to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's IV. Short Stories and Novels a. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry ... ...

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... the Christmas show Black Nativity (1961) and, inspired by the civil rights movement, Jericho--Jim Crow (1964). (www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm) Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. His life and ... ...

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... issue featured work of black writers and was edited by a black philosopher and literary scholar. The second event was the publication of Nigger Heaven written in 1926 by a white novelist Carl Van Vechten that was about Harlem life. The book offended some members of the black community; however it helped a Negro statues bringing attention of many sophisticated New Yorkers black and ... ...

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... a new award until 1950. In 1950, she became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen, her second work of poetry. She also received the late Carl Sandburg as a poet laureate of Illinois in 1968. In conclusion, Gwendolyn Brooks has not only influenced black people, but white people too. She has showed us that anything is possible ... ...

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... education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania three years later. In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature. Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. He wrote novels ... ...

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... , strolled along Seventh Avenue. A fresh generation of writers emerged, although a few were born in Harlem. The movement was accelerated by grants and scholarships and supported by such white writers as Carl Van Vechten. The most gifted gravitated to center of black population to the north of 125th street in upper Manhattan that gave it the name The Harlem Renaissance. Harlem's nightlife ... ...

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