Complete Poems of Hart Crane

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Complete Poems of Hart Crane gathers the full poetic works of Hart Crane, a prodigious and visionary American poet renowned for his ambitious and stylistically unique voice. This edition includes a new introduction by Harold Bloom, honouring Crane’s legacy as a central figure in 20th-century poetry. The collection features his major works, including the landmark epic The Bridge, celebrated as a monumental achievement in American poetry that rivals Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. Readers encounter Crane’s intense devotion to his art amidst personal struggles and a complex cultural context.
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Ideal for students and enthusiasts of American literature and poetry, especially those interested in modernist poetry and LGBTQ+ literary history. This edition suits readers seeking a comprehensive and authoritative collection of Hart Crane’s influential works, enriched by critical insight from Harold Bloom.

"Crane's poetry has been a touchstone for me, and remains central to a fully imaginative understanding of American literature."—Harold Bloom

Description

This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930).

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. A born poet, totally devoted to his art, Crane suffered his warring parents as well as long periods of a hand-to-mouth existence. He suffered also from his honesty as a homosexual poet and lover during a period in American life unsympathetic to his sexual orientation. 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.

His visionary epic, The Bridge, is the most ambitious and accomplished long poem since Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. Marc Simon's text is accepted as the most authoritative presentation of Hart Crane's work available to us.

For this centennial edition, Harold Bloom, who was introduced to poetry by falling in love with Crane's work while still a child, has contributed a new introduction.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780871401786

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 May 2001

Country: United States

Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation

Edition: The Centennial Edition

Contributors:

Edited by Marc Simon
Introduction by Harold Bloom
Introduction by Harold Bloom
Introduction by Harold Bloom
Edited by Marc Simon

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 273g

Pages: 304

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Arts & Culture Hart Crane Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

The Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Harold Bloom (b. 1930) has been hailed as “one of our greatest living literary critics” (Los Angeles Times).