This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary. 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. Buy The Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane for 80.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Marc Simon's text is accepted as the most authoritative presentation of Hart Crane's work available to us. Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters White Buildings The Bridge Key West uncollected poems 412 letters More Edited by Langdon Hammer This hefty collection of all Crane’s verse, all the published prose, and much of his correspondence instantly becomes the standard edition. His visionary epic, The Bridge, is the most ambitious and accomplished long poem since Walt Whitman's 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. A later printing of the Anchor Books edition of the text edited by Waldo Frank, denoted the third edition by Schwartz and. 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. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, Crane died at sea on April 27, 1932, an apparent suicide.
Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca.
This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930).
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