Hart Crane may have lived in Cleveland, Ohio, but, as Irwin masterfully shows, his poems stand among the greatest written in the English language.
Featuring a new introduction by Harold Bloom, this volume chronicles the life works of a poet who has suffered much misunderstanding and neglect despite displaying a superb poetic style, idiosyncratic, yet central to American tradition.
Harold Hart Crane was born in Ohio in 1899.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as Hart Crane. In his haunted, brief life, Crane fashioned a distinctively modern idiom that fused the...
Provides insight into five of Hart Crane's most influential works along with a short biography of the poet.
"This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism"--
Hart Crane was one of the most important poets of the 20th century. Robert Lowell called him 'the Shelley of my age' and 'the great poet of that generation'. The...
Gale, Cengage Learning. Today: Contemporary American poets who show an interest in jazz in their work include Amiri Baraka, Marvin Bell, Hayden Carruth, Jayne Cortez, Michael S. Harper, Yusef Komunyaaka, and Sonia Sanchez.
Begun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial...
Hart Crane: the Patterns of His Poetry