The purpose of this thesis was to present Langston Huges as a poet, to present his literary work during and after the period, known as the Harlem Renaissance, and to provide the overview of author's poetry, its development from the early beginnings to Huges' death. In the first part of the thesis, I tackled the Harlem Renaissance as the literary period, continued with the author's biography and concluded the paper with the biography as well as theory of jazz and blues music, which strongly marked the author's work. When analysing his works, I divided them into four time periods or decades and as conclusion I would say that the author's progress and development in writing is best seen at the turn of the decade. The analyse emphasizes the author's use of jargon - "vernacular", his use of rhythm as well as blues and jazz form or their variations, which are characteristic for Huges' writing. Huges was an important modern American poem of that time; mostly his politically engaged poems and prose left a great mark, not only on literary society, but on society as such.
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