Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, The Bridge, Crane sought to write an epic poem, in the vein of The Waste Land, that expressed a more optimistic view of modern, urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work. In the years following his suicide at the age of 32, Crane has been hailed by playwrights, poets, and literary critics alike (including Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Tennessee Williams, and Harold Bloom), as being one of the most influential poets of his generation.
Life and work
Hart Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio. His father, Clarence, was a successful Ohio businessman who invented the Life Savers candy and held the patent, but sold it for $2,900 before the brand became popular. He made other candy and accumulated a fortune from the candy business with chocolate bars. Crane's mother and father were constantly fighting, and early in April, 1917, they divorced. Hart dropped out of high school during his junior year and left for New York City, promising his parents he would attend Columbia University later. His parents, in the middle of divorce proceedings, were upset. Crane took various copywriting jobs and jumped between friends’ apartments in Manhattan. Between 1917 and 1924 he moved back and forth between New York and Cleveland, working as an advertising copywriter and a worker in his father’s factory. From Crane's letters, it appears that New York was where he felt most at home, and much of his poetry is set there.
"I cannot figure out what Dadaism is. But if the baroness is to be a keystone for it, then I think I can possibly know when it is coming and how to avoid it."
"I cannot figure out what Dadaism is. But if the baroness is to be a keystone for it - then I think I can possibly know when it is coming and how to avoid it."
"It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form."
"The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections."
"Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that."
"And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another."
"I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed - not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered."
"I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad."
"And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before."
"The bottom of the sea is cruel."
"The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it."
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
The early poetry of Hart Crane is presented and analyzed. Crane's self-characterization as a visionary, Romantic, and erotic poet, as well as the unique nature of his poetic project are considered as responses to Eliot's Waste Land and in particular the section "Death by Water." The poems "Legend," "Voyages," and "At Melville's Tomb" are read with particular attention to Crane's idiosyncratic use of language and neologism.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Hart Crane Poem: "Legend"
12:59 - Chapter 2. Hart Crane's Reading of Eliot's "The Waste Land"
20:55 - Chapter 3. Hart Crane Poem: "Voyages"
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu
This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
published: 06 Dec 2012
USA: Poetry Episode In Search of Hart Crane
A study of the life and works of Hart Crane as revealed in his poems and the memories of living friends and associates, including Malcolm Cowley, Waldo Frank, Gorham Munson, and Peggy Baird. Traces his life from his birth in 1899 to his suicide in 1932. Leo Hurwitz Productions
published: 07 Feb 2020
Hart Crane: The Bridge
published: 08 Jun 2019
The Early Poems of Hart Crane FULL AUDIOBOOK ENGLISH
The Early Poems of Hart Crane
Hart CRANE (1899 - 1932)
A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Dealer, Bruno’s Weekly, Bruno’s Bohemia, Gargoyle, The Little Review, The Modernist, The Double Dealer, Dial, The Measure, and The Modern School). - Summary by Winston Tharp
Genre(s): Single author
Language: English
Audiobook, Audiobuch, Hoerbuch, full, komplett
published: 28 Feb 2018
Harold Bloom reads from Hart Crane
published: 13 May 2015
Hart Crane 1899-1932: A Poetic Biography
A brief visual poetic chronology of the American Poet, Hart Crane with some of the more important events of the poet's life (1899-1932) and a nod to his book White Buildings and a few poems including "The Bridge" and "The Broken Tower".
published: 09 Oct 2011
James Franco on "The Broken Tower" and Hart Crane
James Franco, writer-director of "The Broken Tower," talks about Hart Crane, and reveals what led him to make a movie about the legendary American poet of the 1920's, a movie as unconventional as the life and career of Crane himself.
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
The early poetry of Hart Crane is presented and analyzed. Crane's self-characterization as a visionary, Romantic, ...
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
The early poetry of Hart Crane is presented and analyzed. Crane's self-characterization as a visionary, Romantic, and erotic poet, as well as the unique nature of his poetic project are considered as responses to Eliot's Waste Land and in particular the section "Death by Water." The poems "Legend," "Voyages," and "At Melville's Tomb" are read with particular attention to Crane's idiosyncratic use of language and neologism.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Hart Crane Poem: "Legend"
12:59 - Chapter 2. Hart Crane's Reading of Eliot's "The Waste Land"
20:55 - Chapter 3. Hart Crane Poem: "Voyages"
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu
This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
The early poetry of Hart Crane is presented and analyzed. Crane's self-characterization as a visionary, Romantic, and erotic poet, as well as the unique nature of his poetic project are considered as responses to Eliot's Waste Land and in particular the section "Death by Water." The poems "Legend," "Voyages," and "At Melville's Tomb" are read with particular attention to Crane's idiosyncratic use of language and neologism.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Hart Crane Poem: "Legend"
12:59 - Chapter 2. Hart Crane's Reading of Eliot's "The Waste Land"
20:55 - Chapter 3. Hart Crane Poem: "Voyages"
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu
This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
A study of the life and works of Hart Crane as revealed in his poems and the memories of living friends and associates, including Malcolm Cowley, Waldo Frank, G...
A study of the life and works of Hart Crane as revealed in his poems and the memories of living friends and associates, including Malcolm Cowley, Waldo Frank, Gorham Munson, and Peggy Baird. Traces his life from his birth in 1899 to his suicide in 1932. Leo Hurwitz Productions
A study of the life and works of Hart Crane as revealed in his poems and the memories of living friends and associates, including Malcolm Cowley, Waldo Frank, Gorham Munson, and Peggy Baird. Traces his life from his birth in 1899 to his suicide in 1932. Leo Hurwitz Productions
The Early Poems of Hart Crane
Hart CRANE (1899 - 1932)
A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of ...
The Early Poems of Hart Crane
Hart CRANE (1899 - 1932)
A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Dealer, Bruno’s Weekly, Bruno’s Bohemia, Gargoyle, The Little Review, The Modernist, The Double Dealer, Dial, The Measure, and The Modern School). - Summary by Winston Tharp
Genre(s): Single author
Language: English
Audiobook, Audiobuch, Hoerbuch, full, komplett
The Early Poems of Hart Crane
Hart CRANE (1899 - 1932)
A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Dealer, Bruno’s Weekly, Bruno’s Bohemia, Gargoyle, The Little Review, The Modernist, The Double Dealer, Dial, The Measure, and The Modern School). - Summary by Winston Tharp
Genre(s): Single author
Language: English
Audiobook, Audiobuch, Hoerbuch, full, komplett
A brief visual poetic chronology of the American Poet, Hart Crane with some of the more important events of the poet's life (1899-1932) and a nod to his book ...
A brief visual poetic chronology of the American Poet, Hart Crane with some of the more important events of the poet's life (1899-1932) and a nod to his book White Buildings and a few poems including "The Bridge" and "The Broken Tower".
A brief visual poetic chronology of the American Poet, Hart Crane with some of the more important events of the poet's life (1899-1932) and a nod to his book White Buildings and a few poems including "The Bridge" and "The Broken Tower".
James Franco, writer-director of "The Broken Tower," talks about Hart Crane, and reveals what led him to make a movie about the legendary American poet of the 1...
James Franco, writer-director of "The Broken Tower," talks about Hart Crane, and reveals what led him to make a movie about the legendary American poet of the 1920's, a movie as unconventional as the life and career of Crane himself.
James Franco, writer-director of "The Broken Tower," talks about Hart Crane, and reveals what led him to make a movie about the legendary American poet of the 1920's, a movie as unconventional as the life and career of Crane himself.
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
The early poetry of Hart Crane is presented and analyzed. Crane's self-characterization as a visionary, Romantic, and erotic poet, as well as the unique nature of his poetic project are considered as responses to Eliot's Waste Land and in particular the section "Death by Water." The poems "Legend," "Voyages," and "At Melville's Tomb" are read with particular attention to Crane's idiosyncratic use of language and neologism.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Hart Crane Poem: "Legend"
12:59 - Chapter 2. Hart Crane's Reading of Eliot's "The Waste Land"
20:55 - Chapter 3. Hart Crane Poem: "Voyages"
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu
This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
A study of the life and works of Hart Crane as revealed in his poems and the memories of living friends and associates, including Malcolm Cowley, Waldo Frank, Gorham Munson, and Peggy Baird. Traces his life from his birth in 1899 to his suicide in 1932. Leo Hurwitz Productions
The Early Poems of Hart Crane
Hart CRANE (1899 - 1932)
A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Dealer, Bruno’s Weekly, Bruno’s Bohemia, Gargoyle, The Little Review, The Modernist, The Double Dealer, Dial, The Measure, and The Modern School). - Summary by Winston Tharp
Genre(s): Single author
Language: English
Audiobook, Audiobuch, Hoerbuch, full, komplett
A brief visual poetic chronology of the American Poet, Hart Crane with some of the more important events of the poet's life (1899-1932) and a nod to his book White Buildings and a few poems including "The Bridge" and "The Broken Tower".
James Franco, writer-director of "The Broken Tower," talks about Hart Crane, and reveals what led him to make a movie about the legendary American poet of the 1920's, a movie as unconventional as the life and career of Crane himself.
Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, The Bridge, Crane sought to write an epic poem, in the vein of The Waste Land, that expressed a more optimistic view of modern, urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work. In the years following his suicide at the age of 32, Crane has been hailed by playwrights, poets, and literary critics alike (including Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Tennessee Williams, and Harold Bloom), as being one of the most influential poets of his generation.
Life and work
Hart Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio. His father, Clarence, was a successful Ohio businessman who invented the Life Savers candy and held the patent, but sold it for $2,900 before the brand became popular. He made other candy and accumulated a fortune from the candy business with chocolate bars. Crane's mother and father were constantly fighting, and early in April, 1917, they divorced. Hart dropped out of high school during his junior year and left for New York City, promising his parents he would attend Columbia University later. His parents, in the middle of divorce proceedings, were upset. Crane took various copywriting jobs and jumped between friends’ apartments in Manhattan. Between 1917 and 1924 he moved back and forth between New York and Cleveland, working as an advertising copywriter and a worker in his father’s factory. From Crane's letters, it appears that New York was where he felt most at home, and much of his poetry is set there.
Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight Stay in the house close all the windows Now you're searching for fire Some will say as others are listening Now it's gone too far Pale face in white surrounds you You can never forget Her body fell into the sunlight Your broken hands missed Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight Tomorrow I will bring you down Tomorrow I will bring you down Fall through heart - your hands were oh so small It's the things about this place - tonight we escape Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight (Fall through heart - your hands were oh so small It's the things about this place - tonight we escape)
Among documentaries, Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s scored four nominations ...Andrea Arnold - ... Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane - ... - Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane, Julia Ton, Rebecca Wolff. - Jed Hart, Benedict Turnbull ... - Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane, Julia Ton, Rebecca Wolff.
Paraclete’s Eric Green, #1, just misses a touch down as he is pushed out of bounds by Hart’s Talan D’autremont, #14, during first quarter action in a non-league game at the College of the Canyons on Friday, Sept.
It was built for the 80m superyacht support vessel U-81, owned by New Zealand’s richest man, Graeme Hart. The 168 sq m platform is lifted out of the water in one piece by a gargantuan crane, to lay on the vast toy-storage deck ...Life & Style.Luxury.
If you are having thoughts of suicide, please know that you are not alone ... You are in chess ... Trains are dangerous; belts are dangerous; long solo rides on the highway are dangerous; too much to drink, dangerous; HartCrane’s Complete Poems , dangerous.
