The Complete Poems of Hart Crane – The Centennial Edition - Hardcover

Crane, Hart; Simon, Marc; Bloom, Harold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087140656X ISBN 13: 9780871406569

Publisher: Liveright, 2000

Synopsis

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.

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From the Publisher:

A Liveright book. Edited by Marc Simon. With a new introduction by Harold Bloom.

Synopsis:

Born on 21 July 1899, Hart Crane died at sea on 27 April 1932. Despite much critical misunderstanding and neglect, in his own time and in ours, Crane achieved a superb poetic style, idiosyncratic yet central to mthe American tradition. Marc Simon's text is accepted as the authoritative presentation of Crane's work. He relies on Crane's original documents and variants, coming closer to Crane's own intention for publication of his poems than previous editions. In addition to the three major collections - "White Buildings", "The Bridge" and "Key West" - "The Complete Poems of Hart Crane" includes over 70 other poems, among which are 41 poems uncollected or unpublished by Crane, 11 incomplete works and 21 fragments. For this centennial edition, Harold Bloom, who was introduced as a child to poetry by falling in love with Crane's work, has contributed a new introduction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liveright
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 087140656X
• ISBN 13: 9780871406569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304