Hart Crane

This selection of American poet Hart Crane's poems is chosen by Maurice Riordan. It is an admiring and illuminating collection of work from 'the Romantic poet of the twentieth century'.

Harold Hart Crane was born in Ohio in 1899. White Buildings, his first collection, appeared in 1926, and in 1930 his most famous work, The Bridge, was published. Eliot's The Waste Land, The Bridge was a love song to the myth of America and its optimism a much needed boon to post-Wall Street Crash America.Harold Hart Crane was born in Ohio in 1899. In 1923 he became a copy-writer in New York. White Buildings, his first collection, appeared in 1926, and in 1930 his most famous work, The Bridge, was published. A reaction against the pessimism in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, The Bridge was a love song to the myth of America and its optimism a much needed boon to post-Wall Street Crash America. Hart Crane committed suicide in 1932.