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Crane, (Harold) Hart
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Crane, (Harold) Hart (1899–1932), American poet, published two volumes of verse,
White Buildings (1926) and
The Bridge (1930), the latter an obscure but powerful work which explores the ‘Myth of America’, with many echoes of
Whitman; its national symbols include Brooklyn Bridge itself, invoked in its Proem, and such historical and legendary characters as Columbus,
Rip Van Winkle, and
Pocahontas. His
Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose, ed. B. Weber, appeared in 1960.
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On communicative difficulty in general and "difficult" poetry in particular: the example of Hart Crane's "The Broken Tower".
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...fluid as always. --Hart Crane, "General...the living. Hart Crane (or any poet) reminds...Here, in context of Hart Cranes "The Broken Tower...a peasant folk [Hart Crane's equivalent...But, in a sense, Cranes poem is earlier or...yet--possible. Crane's ...
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Hart Crane's 1931 postcard from the Torreon de Los Remedios.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...on a postcard sent from the poet Hart Crane (1899-1932) to Peter Blume and...Blume, Peter. "A Recollection of Hart Crane." Yale Review 76 (1987): 152...Robber Rocks: Letters and Memories of Hart Crane, 1923-1932. Middletown...
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Satin and Vacant: Hart Crane's 'Key West"
Newspaper article from: Solares Hill; 8/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...seen again, the great American poet Hart Crane planned to produce a third collection...determined as the point at which Hart Crane gave himself back." Crane had his...Robert Lowell included his "Words for Hart Crane" in "Life Studies." An aggrieved...
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EXHAUSTIVE `HART CRANE' DETAILS POET'S BRILLIANT, TRAGIC LIFE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/5/2002; ; 700+ words
; Hart Crane was a handful, and after reading...friends. Cowley recalled how Crane would withdraw from his kitchen...after 24-hour marathons, "Hart came stamping out, his eyes...immediately." He was 32. In "Hart Crane: A Life," Fisher does have...
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On Reviewing Hart Crane
Magazine article from: Poetry; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...last word? In the case of Hart Crane, there can be no last...condition of the Atlantic when Crane jumped. Mariani fails...rugged); Philip Horton in Hart Crane claims the "sea...quoting Guggenheim in Hart Crane: A Life, says the...
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Bridge to the avant-garde.(Hart Crane: After His Lights)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Hart Crane: After His Lights by Brian M. Reed University...THE PROJECT of Brian M. Reed's study of Hart Crane is two-fold: he seeks not only...Bob Kaufman, all of whom were indebted to Hart Crane. Reed has a solid grounding in recent and...
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The poems of Hart Crane.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 4/7/1986; ; 700+ words
; The Poems of Hart Crane AFEW MINUTES before noon on April 27, 1932, Hart Crane appeared on the deck of the Orizaba, 275 miles...Marc Simon has produced a definitive The Poems of Hart Crane (Liveright, 320 pp., $19.95). Besides...
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O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 7/21/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...called `Calamus.'" The young man was Harold Hart Crane, only child of a local candy tycoon. As Hart Crane he was to become, like Isadora Duncan...somewhat tautologically put it in his "Words for Hart Crane," while "ninety-nine percent" of...
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The poet explains himself in prose: Hart Crane's letters illuminate the writer of irrational verse.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/30/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...have fulfilled that role better than Hart Crane, a modern Orpheus. ``And so it...the visionary company of love,'' Crane wrote. Those words echo Rilke's...Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane, edited by Langdon Hammer and...
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Letters reveal the shooting star that was poet Hart Crane
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/29/1997; ; 700+ words
; O MY LAND, MY FRIENDS The Selected Letters of Hart Crane Edited by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber Four Walls...on dynamite these days," wrote the 26-year-old Hart Crane as he was in the throes of writing his great poem...
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Hart Crane
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Hart Crane Hart Crane (1899-1932) was an American poet...remains perhaps the best brief introduction to Crane's difficult and intense poetic vision. Tate wrote: "The poetry of Hart Crane is ambitious … It is an...
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Crane, (Harold) Hart
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Crane, [Harold] Hart (1899–1932), Ohioborn poet, although he published only...American background and the modern consciousness to which it gives rise. Crane finds in America a principle of unity and absolute faith, through the...
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Three Literary Suicides
Book article from: American Decades
...to get me; I got them first," were his last words. Hart Crane Hart Crane was the most promising and the most eccentric of...the resources of the estate at a critical time, and Hart Crane was left with an income of only $125 per month...
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Bloom, Harold
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...difficult poems of the American author Hart Crane. “I remember my sister...to take out the collected poems of Hart Crane, and I think a volume of T...fell even more violently in love with Hart Crane's poetry.” Bloom...
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New York
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...James Melville, Stedman, and Brander Matthews; Stephen Crane, Riis, Saltus, D.G. Phillips, Steffens, O. Henry...the Harlem authors, Ernest Poole, James Oppenheim, Hart Crane, Odets, Irwin Shaw, F.P. Adams, Maxwell Bodenheim...
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