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"No Crystal Stair": Unity, Archetype and Symbol in Langston Hughes's Poems on Women Author(s): R. Baxter Miller Source: Negro American Literature Forum, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter, 1975), pp. 109-114 Published by: St. Louis University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3041302 . Accessed: 26/01/2011 19:55

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"NO CRYSTAL STAIR": UNITY, ARCHETYPE AND SYMBOL IN LANGSTON HUGHES'S POEMS ON WOMEN

No American poet, I think, combines myth and pragmatism better than Hughes does in the archetypes. poems presenting matriarchal

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