Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin , is unique in 19 th century American print culture. It played an important role in abolitionist movements of...
Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics by Ben Glaser; forthcoming from Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press From the publisher: Despite...
The Langston Hughes Papers are the single most consulted collection in the Beinecke Library’s vast archives. Part of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial...
The November 29th program considered "the musical setting of poems by Langston Hughes and included the bard himself. "Langston Hughes was guest of honor and punctuated his interview with a reading from his opera Troubled Island."[2] The original Hughes-annotated WNYC script is below.
Parmi les archives numériques de la Beinecke Library on trouve la correspondance que le poète et romancier Langston Hughes a entretenue avec Nina Simone. Les feuillets froissés nous plongent dans le quotidien de la chanteuse et dévoilent une artiste à la fois enjouée et en colère, fatiguée par son travail.
Well known on campus and around the world as a site of important historical documents of all kinds, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript is also a regional...