Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters (LOA #168)

Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters (LOA #168) (Library of America)
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No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as Hart Crane. In his haunted, brief life, Crane fashioned a distinctively modern idiom that fused the ornate rhetoric of the Elizabethans, the ecstatic enigmas of Rimbaud, and the prophetic utterances and cosmic sympathy of Whitman, in a quest for wholeness and healing in what he called â€œthe broken world.â€

White Buildings, perhaps the greatest debut volume in American poetry sinceÂ Leaves of Grass, is but an exquisite prelude to Craneâ€™s masterpieceÂ The Bridge, his magnificent evocation of America from Columbus to the Jazz Age that countered the pessimism of Eliotâ€™sÂ The Waste LandÂ and became a crucial influence on poets whose impact continues to this day.

This edition is the largest collection of Craneâ€™s writings ever published. Gathered here are the complete poems and published prose, along with a generous selection of Craneâ€™s letters, several of which have never before been published. In his letters Crane elucidates his aims as an artist and provides fascinating glosses on his poetry.

His voluminous correspondence also offers an intriguing glimpse into his complicated personality, as well as his tempestuous relationships with family, lovers, and writers such as Allen Tate, Waldo Frank, Yvor Winters, Jean Toomer, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Katherine Anne Porter. Several letters included here are published for the first time.

This landmark 850-page volume features a detailed and freshly-researched chronology of Craneâ€™s life as well as extensive explanatory notes, and over fifty biographical sketches of Craneâ€™s correspondents.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAÂ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationâ€™s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaâ€™s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2006-09-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781931082990

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2006-09-21
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781931082990

Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters (LOA #168) (Library of America)