Book

Crane, Hart, 1899-1932, author.

Complete poems of Hart Crane / edited by Marc Simon ; [introduction by Harold Bloom].

[Centennial ed.].

New York : Liveright, [2000]

xxxvi, 268 pages ; 22 cm

Despite much critical misunderstanding and neglect, in his own time and in ours, Hart 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 Crane's work now available to us.

Harold Bloom's Centenary critical essay is a full-scale analysis of Crane's achievement. Bloom emphasizes Crane's creative agon with T.S. Eliot's work, which Crane could neither evade nor accept.

The introduction also examines the positive relation of Crane's poetic stance to the heroic example of Walt Whitman, Crane's chosen precursor, together with Emily Dickinson. Bloom gives fresh readings of several of the most noted lyrics in White Buildings, including "Voyages II" and "Repose of Rivers."

Defending the unity of The Bridge, Bloom analyzes the "Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge" and the concluding section, "Atlantis." He also gives particular emphasis to Crane's last great poem, "The Broken Tower."

Poetry.

American poetry -- 19th century.

Poetry.

Simon, Marc, 1938- editor.

Bloom, Harold, writer of introduction.

Works. 2000

Ed. statement from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- White Buildings -- Legend -- Black Tambourine -- Emblems of Conduct -- My Grandmother's Love Letters -- Sunday Morning Apples -- Praise for an Urn -- Garden Abstract -- Stark Major -- Chaplinesque -- Pastorale -- In Shadow -- The Fernery -- North Labrador -- Repose of Rivers -- Paraphrase -- Possessions -- Lachrymae Christi -- Passage -- The Wine Menagerie -- Recitative -- For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen -- At Melville's Tomb -- Voyages, I, II, III, IV, V, VI -- The Bridge -- Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge -- Ave Maria -- Powhatan's Daughter -- The Harbor Dawn -- Van Winkle -- The River -- The Dance -- Indiana -- Cutty Sark -- Cape Hatteras -- Three Songs -- Southern Cross -- National Winter Garden -- Virginia -- Quaker Hill -- The Tunnel -- Atlantis -- Key West An Island Sheaf -- O Carib Isle! -- The Mermen -- To the Cloud Juggler -- The Mango Tree -- Island Quarry -- Old Song -- The Idiot -- A Name for All -- Bacardi Spreads the Eagle's Wing -- Imperator Victus -- Royal Palm -- The Air Plant -- The Hurricane -- Key West Folder Subsection -- Key West -- --And Bees of Paradise -- To Emily Dickinson -- Moment Fugue -- By Nilus Once I Knew ... -- To Shakespeare -- Poems Uncollected but Published by Crane -- C 33 -- October-November -- The Hive -- Fear -- Annunciations -- Echoes -- The Bathers -- Modern Craft -- Carmen de Boheme -- Exile -- Forgetfulness -- To Portapovitch -- Legende -- Interior -- Porphyro in Akron -- A Persuasion.

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