LANGSTON HUGHES
Langston Hughes was one of the most influential African American poets of all time. ... In one of Hughes’ first essays “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”, he spoke of poets who would surrender racial pride for a false sense of integration. ... In his poem “Ballad of the Landlord”, Hughes speaks of a tenant who is so desperate to have their apartment fixed that they were willing to pay more money than they owe to have repairs done immediately. ... In another poem titled “Rent-Party Shout: For a Lady Dancer”, Hughes writes about a woman who looking for her cheating husband at a rent party. ... In “Bad Man”, Hughes writes of a man who believes he is bad because everybody tells him so. ... A critic Countee Cullen liked some of Hughes poems in book, but he regarded the entire project as one sided.