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Why is Langston famous? He was a renowned Black poet that flourished during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Mainly, he was a poet though try "Dear Lovely Death." He has a musical sound to his verse, but often his subject matter and content are less than groundbreaking and was influenced by the rise of Jazz and the rhythms of music, but clearly a poet. Langston Hughes was of the Harlem Renaissance, an artistic movement of the 1920's in which black artists living in Harlem and elsewhere blossomed in musical, poetic, theatrical and cultural expression. This movement was not autonomous, that is, its success sometimes was dependent upon the financial support of white patrons who influenced the movement through their expectations. The musical and oral traditions of black America inspired Hughes, and the rhythms of jazz music can be heard in much of his poetry. Langston Hughes knew how important dreams are. Commonly thought of as the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes was a prolific artist who wrote essays, short stories, operettas, children's books, and mountains of poems. He celebrated the spirit of the African-American community and wanted to capture the condition and the everyday life of black people through his art in a time when many black artists were afraid to do so, for fear of feeding racial stereotypes. What is Harlem? Harlem is romantic in its own right. And it is hard and strong, its noise, heat, cold, cries and colors are so. And the nostalgia is violent too; the eternal radio seeping through everything day and night, indoors and out, becomes somehow the personification of restlessness, desire,