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,
“... In so far as there was a shared response to Hart Crane’s poetry after his suicide in 1932, it took the form of invidious comparisons. ‘Crane had the sensibility typical of Baudelaire,’ R.P. Blackmur wrote in 1935, ‘and so misunderstood himself that he attempted to write The Bridge as if he had the sensibility typical of Whitman.’ Dylan Thomas’s poems, Randall Jarrell wrote in 1940, ‘often mean much less than Crane’s – but when you consider Crane’s meanings this is not altogether a disadvantage ... ”
