Harold Hart Crane ( July 21 , 1899 – April 27 , 1932 ) was an American poet . Sourced His thoughts, delivered to me From the white coverlet and pillow, I see now, were inheritances— Delicate riders of the storm. Praise for an Urn (l. 5-8). In The...
Like many other American writers of the twenties Hart Crane visited France. Crane's stay, which lasted from early January to mid-July 1929, was briefer than most. The poet had hoped that France would be a place where he could work on his epic The...
Hart Crane (1899-1932) was an American poet in the mystical tradition who attempted, through the visionary affirmations of his richly imagistic, metaphysically intense poetry, to counter the naturalistic despair of the 1920s. Hart Crane was born on...
The years immediately preceding World War I saw the introduction of international modernism to America, and the years immediately following saw American artists in all the arts adopting and adapting the new ideas and grafting them onto a distinctly...
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 poetry that was traditional in form, difficult and often archaic in language, and which sought...
The Poems of Hart Crane AFEW MINUTES before noon on April 27, 1932, Hart Crane appeared on the deck of the Orizaba, 275 miles north of Havana on her way to New York. He wore a topcoat over pajamas. Startled fellow passengers, gathered...
Robert Adamson's most recent book of poetry, Waving to Hart Crane, is also his most self-consciously experimental. His previous collection, The Clean Dark, garnered its full share of prizes in Australia and seemed to represent a culmination of his work, steadily built up over...
Today is Friday, April 27, the 117th day of 2007. There are 248 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 27, 1805, during the First Barbary War, an American-led force of Marines and mercenaries captured the city of Derna, on the shores of...
Today is Saturday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2007. There are 163 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 21, 1861, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.On this date:In 1831, Leopold I...
