For this centennial edition, Harold Bloom, who was. For this centennial edition, Harold Bloom, who was introduced to poetry by falling in love with Cranes work while still a child, has contributed a new introduction. A wildly uneven collection of poems, gathering together Crane’s three volumes of poetry as well as his early work. Marc Simons text is accepted as the most authoritative presentation of Hart Cranes work available to us. Marc Simons text is accepted as the most authoritative presentation of Hart Cranes work available to us.

His visionary epic, The Bridge, is the most ambitious and accomplished long poem since Walt Whitmans Song of Myself. Despite much critical misunderstanding and neglect, in his own time and in ours, Crane achieved a superb poetic style, idiosyncratic yet central to American tradition. He suffered also from his honesty as a homosexual poet and lover during a period in American life unsympathetic to his sexual orientation. A born poet, totally devoted to his art, Crane suffered his warring parents as well as long periods of a hand-to-mouth existence. Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, Crane died at sea on April 27, 1932, an apparent suicide. This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). In his haunted, brief life, Crane fashioned a distinctively. Book Synopsis This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as Hart Crane. Simons text is accepted as the most authoritative presentation of Cranes work available. About the Book Despite much critical misunderstanding and neglect, Crane-author of White Buildings and The Bridge-achieved a superb poetic style, idiosyncratic yet central to American tradition.

The Complete Poems by Hart Crane