[Langston Hughes interview on Enjoyment of poetry] / Florence Becker Lennon.

Originally broadcast January 18, 1959 on the radio program Enjoyment of poetry on WEVD, New York, N.Y. Digitized from the Poetry Collection's 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel donated copy of the original program.

Recording of an interview with Hughes features a discussion on the theme of love in poetry. Hughes also reads poetry from his Selected poems and also some traditional blues poetry.

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American folksongs of protest /read by Lennon --The bourgeois blues /Ledbetter read by Lennon --I got those little white schoolhouse blues /Lennon.Langston Hughes reading:The weary blues --Good morning, blues --When I got up this morning, blues walkin 'round my bed --Did you ever see a one-eyed woman cry? --Too blue --Little old letter --Out of work --Could be --Mississippi levee --Morning after --Southern blues --Reverie on the Harlem River --Wake. --Me and my captain /Lawrence Gellert read by Lennon.

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