SOURCE: Patterson, Anita. “Jazz, Realism, and the Modernist Lyric: The Poetry of Langston Hughes.” Modern Language Quarterly 61, no. 4 (December 2000): 651-82.
In the following essay, Patterson examines the jazz poetics and the modernistic aspects of Hughes's verse.
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