![]() ![]() "The Big Sea" is the story of a Negro who began life as the child of a poor family in the Midwest in the first decade of this century, and who after that was a successful business man's son and also a teacher of English in Mexico, a night-clubĬook and waiter in Paris, a mess boy on freighters halfway around the world, a starving beachcomber in Genoa, a laundry hand in Washington, a student at Columbia and Lincoln Universities, and at once a participant in and a clear-eyed observer Langston Hughes'sĪutobiography is the product and portrait of a very unusual spirit, in its narrative of crowded happenings and contrasts and the envisioning of a strange and significant time. Now that it is here before us, the noteworthy quality of the poet's latest book passes well beyond its content of remarkable situation and incident. ![]() ![]() And neither then nor in these years since, as Langston Hughes has continued to produce sensitive and thoughtful work in prose and verse, has the fullĬourse of his extraordinary career been generally guessed. He had been a great many things, in twenty-three years of a remarkably eventful history. Or had he been, some asked each other, an elevator operator? As a matter of fact, It is fifteen years since Vachel Lindsay brought a new item of literary interest to the public in the discovery of a poet who was a colored bus boy in a Washington hotel. ![]() A Negro Intellectual Tells His Life StoryĪugA Negro Intellectual Tells His Life Story By KATHERINE WOODS ![]()
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