| #431777 in Books | Library of America | 2006-09-21 | 2006-09-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.12 x1.41 x5.15l,1.59 | File type: PDF | 864 pages | ||25 of 25 people found the following review helpful.| A Poetry of Vision -- A Life of Excess|By Robin Friedman|"Who asks for me, the Shelley of my age, must lay his heart out for my bed and board."
In a short, tumultous life, Hart Crane (1899 -- 1932) wrote two of the greatest books of 20th Century American poetry: White Buildings (1926) and the Bridge (1930) as well as some splendid individual poems. His poetry|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Crane's strenuous optimism about America, his barely coded celebrations of homoerotic desire and his bejeweled, dense, late Romantic language made him perhaps the most fiercely cherished of modernists, despite or because
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 ornate rhetoric of the Elizabethans, the ecstatic enigmas of Rimbaud, and the prophetic utterances and cosmic sympathy of Whitman, in a quest for wholeness and healing in what he called "the broken world." White Buildings, perhaps the greatest debut volume in American poetry since ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters (Library of America) | Hart Crane. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
