
Lesson Plans: 11 Eng LPQ3 037 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
... Langston Hughes. His novels, however, are more radical than Hughes. COUNTEE CULLEN (1903 –1946) Countee Cullen was one of the most significant writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Mr. Cullen wrote with style, humor, and excellent description. In his poem, ”Yet Do I Marvel” he asks how god could make a ...
... Langston Hughes. His novels, however, are more radical than Hughes. COUNTEE CULLEN (1903 –1946) Countee Cullen was one of the most significant writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Mr. Cullen wrote with style, humor, and excellent description. In his poem, ”Yet Do I Marvel” he asks how god could make a ...
Common Core Unit
... Common Core Unit Students explore Robert Frost’s vision of nature as modernist rather than transcendentalist in its perspective. They identify the alienation of the modern man and the tensions that are embedded in the modernist works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Toomer . The works of Countee Cullen, L ...
... Common Core Unit Students explore Robert Frost’s vision of nature as modernist rather than transcendentalist in its perspective. They identify the alienation of the modern man and the tensions that are embedded in the modernist works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Toomer . The works of Countee Cullen, L ...
Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that ""the negro was in vogue"", which was later paraphrased as ""when Harlem was in vogue"".