I would broaden the point. The poets of the Harlem Renaissance wrote a substantial amount of poetry, but it seems that colleges and anthologies focus on a very small percentage of their work, as in the case of Langston Hughes.
I suspect that the fact that much of the work doesn't fit into the easy narratives of the contemporary academic world accounts for so much work being neglected. For instance, most "dialect poems" by Harlem Renaissance poets make us cringe today, but nonetheless it is important for us to understand what they were trying to do and how their work differs from far less sympathetic "dialect poems" written by white authors with reprehensible motives. Hughes' writing for the stage, too, has been largely ignored.
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