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Featured Author: Hart Crane
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Langdon Hammer Reviews Paul Mariani’s ‘The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane’ (July 18) First Chapter: ‘The Broken Tower’
Butler Library, Columbia University/ From “The Broken Tower”Hart Crane, photographed by Walker Evans in 1930.
‘White Buildings‘
(1927)
“. . . most of the time it is incomprehensible so far as the actual thought-content goes. Yet the line structure is so beautiful in itself, the images so vividly conceived, and the general aura of poetry
so indelibly felt that the intelligent reader will move pleasurably among the impenetrable nuances.”‘The Bridge‘
(1930)
“Since to the mind of the present writer cubism, whatever value it may have for painting, is wholly valueless in poetry, ‘The Bridge,’ nevertheless, remains for him, in spite of its glitter and
its seeming intellectual importance, a piece that is in the main spurious as poetry.”‘The Collected Poems of Hart Crane‘
(1933)
“The fact that the bridge could not uphold him is manifest in his later poems. But he was a gesture and a pulse of our modern times and his ‘Collected Poems’ is not an unimportant book. It is a
testament of the broken vision of America and a promise for the future when our intellectual strength will support our emotional chaos.”‘The Letters of Hart Crane‘
(1952)
“The best of the letters, revealing depths of the creative spirit, nakedly and often nobly, seem destined for as sure an immortality [as his poetry.]”Poet Sees ‘Left Bank’; Now He Must Stay Dry
(July 11, 1929)
After an intoxicated scuffle with police officers, Crane promised a French magistrate to refrain from drink during his stay in France.Report Hart Crane Lost From a Ship
(April 28, 1932)
Crane was reported missing from the steamer Orizaba,, travelling out of Vera Cruz for New York.Poet’s Death Linked With Loss of Father
(April 29, 1932)
With only the simple message from the ship’s captain to go on — “Hart Crane went overboard at noon today. Body not recovered” — friends of Crane speculated that the death of Crane’s
father may driven the poet to suicide.Ralph Thompson Reviews Philip Horton’s ‘Hart Crane’
(May 18, 1937)
“Horton’s biography would have been more satisfactory had it . . . not offered itself as a text for . . . a further series of pious sermons upon America’s hostility to true art and true
artists. At the same time it is an unusually able pioneer work, skillfully written, generally critical and remarkably revealing . . .”Helen Vendler Reviews John Unterecker’s ‘Voyager’
(July 20, 1969)
“In its almost 800 pages of misery and exaltation, John Unterecker’s remarkably truthful biography of Hart Crane keeps up a momentum provided in part by the passion of its subject but in part
as well by a powerful accumulation of mesmerizing detail.”Family Man
(July 21, 1974)
In his review of Sherman Paul’s biography and a collection of Crane’s letters to his family, “two worthy additions to the literature,” R. W. Flint calls Crane “one of the great
masters of the Romantic movement in English, a Neo-Symbolist if you like, a gloriously skilled and fallible technician.”Denis Donoghue Reviews ‘Hart Crane and Yvor Winters: Their Literary Correspondence’
(February 4, 1979)
“. . . extremely valuable . . . [the correspondence represents] a lively moment in American literary history, and is of great intrinsic interest. Crane was sufficiently stimulated or provoked
by Winters to mail him his views on sundry themes . . .”Previous Author Features From The New York Times on the Web
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