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Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Inspired by T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote highly stylized modernist poetry, often noted for its complexity.
Hart Crane is considered a pivotal—even prophetic—figure in American literature, who is often cast as a Romantic in the decades of high Modernism. Crane’s version of American Romanticism extended back through Walt Whitman to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and in his most ambitious work, The Bridge, he sought…
May 7, 2024 · Hart Crane was an American poet who celebrated the richness of life—including the life of the industrial age—in lyrics of visionary intensity. His most noted work, The Bridge (1930), was an attempt to create an epic myth of the American experience.
Hart Crane is considered a pivotal—even prophetic—figure in American literature, who is often cast as a Romantic in the decades of high Modernism. Crane’s version of American Romanticism extended back through Walt Whitman to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and in his most ambitious work, The Bridge,...
Hart Crane - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Born on July 21, 1899, in Garrettsville, Ohio, Harold Hart Crane began writing poetry in his early teenage years.
Reacting to Eliot's The Waste Land, Crane wrote a long poem sequence that was American rather than international. Crane also wished to substitute cultural optimism for Eliot's bleak pessimism and to imagine that collaborative human work could offer some hope for the future.
Hart Crane's tour de force of homosexual love. By Brian Reed. “Love you!”. “Mean it!”. —Exchange overheard in a West Hollywood Safeway. In 1923, Hart Crane (1899–1932) met a blond, blue-eyed Danish sailor named Emil Opffer. He fell crazily, blissfully in love.
Jun 27, 2018 · Hart Crane (1899-1932) was an American poet in the mystical tradition who attempted, through the visionary affirmations of his richly imagistic, metaphysically intense poetry, to counter the naturalistic despair of the 1920s.
Aug 15, 2016 · Hart Crane (1899-1932) is a significant American poet of the early twentieth century, though he is often overlooked in our haste to get to Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams or, of the expatriate Americans who settled in Europe, to T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
Modernist poet Hart Crane considered himself an artist in Whitman’s tradition of optimism and exuberance. Both tried to represent the vastness of America in life and modernity. A. E. Marey, Going to See Chaplin (1920), courtesy of the Gazette du Bon Ton. Line outside theater in Paris.
