{"title":"Books by Hart Crane","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780486855370","title":"The Bridge and White Buildings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Hart Crane may well remain as the greatest poet produced by America since Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson... His imaginative intensity, his flashes of imagery, his Elizabethan grandeur, make his rich blank verse eclipse most of the poetry written in English since Yeats.\" – Henri Peyre, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eA key figure in American modernist poetry, Hart Crane (1899-1932) was a visionary American poet known for his rich, imagistic language and bold exploration of themes such as identity, spirituality, and human connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis celebrated work, \u003cem\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e, is an epic meditation on America, using the Brooklyn Bridge – metaphorically connecting America's past with its industrialized future of innovation, progress, and hope within the American Dream. In \u003cem\u003eWhite Buildings\u003c\/em\u003e, his lyrical intensity is revealed in poems exploring the complexities of love, loss, and artistic ambition, along with his openness to queer themes. His experimental approach to poetry has solidified his place as a significant voice in twentieth-century poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite his tragically short life, Crane's works continue to inspire readers and writers alike, offering profound insights into the struggles and aspirations of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368036708725,"sku":"9780486855370","price":7.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780486855370_60bd0aa9-f4a9-48a6-8948-8b24fa487b34.jpg?v=1787743679"},{"product_id":"9781531513481","title":"The Bridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eHart Crane’s modernist masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e has steadily grown in stature since its 1930 publication. Once dismissed by influential critics as a noble failure, a view that hardened into conventional wisdom, it is now widely regarded as one of the major achievements of twentieth-century American poetry. The poem unites mythology and modernity to reckon with the promises, kept and broken, of American experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e is challenging in the best sense, exacting and ultimately rewarding. Beloved yet often misunderstood, it threads indirect and finely grained allusions through period-specific references to 1920s life that can elude contemporary readers. Crane’s elaborate compound metaphors braid disparate sources, making the poem’s movement at times hard to track. Its topical and geographic markers call not only for identification but for explanation. Without specialized knowledge, much of it not readily available even online, many passages remain opaque.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil now, there was no single, convenient resource to help readers unlock Crane’s vision. This book is that guide. Its detailed, far-reaching annotations make \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e fully accessible, whether you are a scholar, a student, or a devoted reader of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369018208629,"sku":"9781531513481","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781531513481_6d23c445-fe7d-4edd-a6f3-182f15840e89.jpg?v=1786023494"},{"product_id":"complete-poems-of-hart-crane","title":"Complete Poems of Hart Crane","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of \u003cem\u003eWhite Buildings\u003c\/em\u003e (1926) and \u003cem\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e (1930).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, Crane died at sea on April 27, 1932, an apparent suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA born poet, totally devoted to his art, Crane suffered his warring parents as well as long periods of a hand-to-mouth existence. He suffered also from his honesty as a homosexual poet and lover during a period in American life unsympathetic to his sexual orientation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite much critical misunderstanding and neglect, in his own time and in ours, Crane achieved a superb poetic style, idiosyncratic yet central to American tradition. His visionary epic, \u003cem\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e, is the most ambitious and accomplished long poem since Walt Whitman's \u003cem\u003eSong of Myself\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarc Simon's text is accepted as the most authoritative presentation of Hart Crane's work available to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481500983669,"sku":"9780871401786","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780871401786.jpg?v=1786089766"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-hart-crane.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}