At the bottom of this page, the poet writes: “A dream within a dream – / our dream deferred.” (over) Montage of a dream deferred”– these words have been struck by the poet. The final lines of the handwritten text continue on the back on the page: “…to Harlem Brook- / lyn Bronx San Juan Hell. READ the published text: “ Harlem” as it appears in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, 2002ĭRAFT GROUP 1: The title “Harlem” first appears on a typescript draft of a poem, “New York.” This selection is NOT meant to be read as a complete record of Hughes’s process writing this poem the pages here provide windows on this work as it developed across a great many drafts written and revised over time.Īll extant drafts associated with Montage of Dream Deferred appear in Boxes 316 and 316a, folders 5155-5172 of the Langston Hughes Papers - JWJ MSS 26. What follows is a representative sample selected from drafts in the Langston Hughes Papers the poem “Harlem” was written as part of a longer piece, “Montage of a Dream Deferred” and additional works from that piece appear among these draft pages. The poet Langston Hughes had a dynamic writing process that included making many interconnected drafts.
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