Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters (Library of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (988 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1931082995 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 864 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. 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 of his short, passionate and controversial life: Crane (1899–1932) drowned in the Gulf of Mexico six years after completing his masterful long poem The Bridge. . All rights reserved. Hammer, who assembled that edition, knows more than anyone else alive about Crane; his hefty collection of all the verse, all the published prose (there isn't much) and much of that correspondence (nearly three-quarters of this book) instantly becomes the standard edition. Vigorous, sometimes hyperbolic letters trace Crane's move from Cleveland to New York, his pursuit of the poetic sublime, his interactions with other modernist luminaries (William C
a lot more letters than poetry imran rehmani you know james franco made a movie about this guy starrung his brother, dave? i couldnt sit through it. but the book has like 160 pgs of poetry and 400 of letters. i decided, i didnt care for his voice. maybe its a personal taste. IGNORE HART CRANE AT YOUR OWN PERIL!! andronicus SPLENDID EDITION OF HART CRANE'S POETRY.LETTERS AND PROSEAND THE NOTES ARE AN ADDED BONUS. Five Stars Amazon Customer Excellent Library of America edition
Langdon Hammer, editor, is Chair of the English Department at Yale University, and is the author of Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism and, with Brom Weber, the editor of O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane. . He has held a Guggenheim Fellowshi
This edition is the largest collection of Crane's writings ever published. Gathered here are the complete poems and published prose, along with a generous selection of Crane's letters, several of which have never before been published. E. This landmark 850-page volume features a detailed and freshly-researched chronology of Crane's life by editor Langdon Hammer, chair of the English Department at Yale University and a biographer of Crane, as well as extensive explanatory notes, and over fifty biographical sketches of Crane's correspondents.. 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 Leaves of Grass, is but an exquisite prelude to Crane's masterpiece The Bridge, his magnificent evocation of America from Columbus to the Jazz Age that countered the pessimism of Eliot's The Waste Land and became a crucial influence on poets whose impact continues to this day. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Katherine Anne Porter. No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as