book\' that marks the opening of a career well worth watching.
Despite Heyward\'s statement, much of Hughes\'s early work was roundly
criticized by many black intellectuals for portraying what they
thought to be an unattractive view of black life. In his
autobiographical The Big Sea, Hughes commented: Fine Clothes to the
Jew was well received by the literary magazines and the white press,
but the Negro critics did not like it at all. The Pittsburgh Courier
ran a big headline across the top of the page, LANGSTON HUGHES\' BOOK
OF POEMS TRASH. The headline in the New York Amsterdam News
wasLANGSTON HUGHESTHE SEWER DWELLER. The Chicago Whip characterized
me as `the poet low-rate of Harlem.\' Others called the book a
disgrace to the race, a return to the dialect tradition, and a
parading of all our racial defects before......
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