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Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio to Clarence A. Crane and Grace Edna Hart. His father was a successful Ohio restaurateur [5] and businessman who invented the Life Savers candy and held the patent, but sold it for $2,900 before the brand became popular. [6]
First edition (publ. Black Sun Press) The Bridge, first published in 1930 by the Black Sun Press, is Hart Crane's first, and only, attempt at a long poem. (Its primary status as either an epic or a series of lyrical poems remains contested; recent criticism tends to read it as a hybrid, perhaps indicative of a new genre, the "modernist epic."
"The Broken Tower" is the last poem meant to be published by poet Hart Crane in 1932. In keeping with the varieties and difficulties of Crane criticism, the poem has been interpreted widely—as death ode, life ode, process poem, visionary poem, poem on failed vision—but its biographical impetus out of Crane's first heterosexual affair (with Peggy Cowley, estranged wife of Malcolm Cowley) is ...
Anzob Tunnel, linking Dushanbe to North Tajikistan, Tajikistan; Lefortovo tunnel, Moscow, Russia; Tunnel de la mort, Montreal, Canada; Apennine Tunnel of the Bologna–Florence railway line; Michigan Central Railway Tunnel, linking Detroit, USA and Windsor, Canada; An entrance tunnel at Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, USA, used to ...
A rare volume published by the Black Sun Press of Hart Crane's book-length poem The Bridge, including photos by Walker Evans, was sold by Christie's in 2009 for US$21,250. [15] In 2009, Neil Pearson, an antiquarian books expert, said "A Black Sun book is the literary equivalent of a Braque or a Picasso painting—except it's a few thousand ...
White Buildings was the first collection (1926) of poetry by Hart Crane, an American modernist poet, critical to both lyrical and language poetic traditions. The book features well-known pieces like "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen," the " Voyages " series, and some of his most famous lyrics including "My Grandmother's Love Letters" and ...
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A first edition of The Bridge by Hart Crane in near fine condition was priced at USD$3,842 (about €4612) in 2010 by Royal Books. [33] Only 100 copies were made when Editions Narcisse, later the Black Sun Press, printed in 1928 The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde, with illustrations by Alastair .