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. No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the. Marc Simon's text is accepted as the most authoritative presentation of Hart Crane's work available to us. Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters (LOA 168) (English, Hardcover, Crane Hart). His visionary epic, The Bridge, is the most ambitious and accomplished long poem since Walt Whitman's Song of Myself.

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. Crane found what a place to start his synthesis in Brooklyn. He suffered also from his honesty as a homosexual poet and lover during a period in American life unsympathetic to his sexual orientation. Bridge is both the poems central symbol and its poetic starting point. A born poet, totally devoted to his art, Crane suffered his warring parents as well as long periods of hand-to-mouth existence. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, Crane died at sea on April 27, 1932, as an apparent suicide. Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca. This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). 'Crane's poetry has been a touchstone for me, and remains central to a fully imaginative understanding of American literature.'―Harold Bloom

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