Roaring Boy
Adam Phillips: Hart Crane, 30 September 1999
The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane
by Paul Mariani.
Norton, 492 pp., $35, April 1999,0 393 04726 1 Show More
by Paul Mariani.
Norton, 492 pp., $35, April 1999,
O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane
edited by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber.
Four Walls Eight Windows, 562 pp., $35, July 1997,0 941423 18 2 Show More
edited by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber.
Four Walls Eight Windows, 562 pp., $35, July 1997,
“... Aeneid was not written in two years – nor in four,’ Crane wrote to his patron Otto Kahn, ‘and in more than one sense I feel justified in comparing the historical and cultural scope of The Bridge to that great work.’ Whether he was used by poets and critics alike to represent the more disabling trends of what became known as Modernism ... ”