The Complete Poems of Hart Crane

by Crane, Hart; Simon, Marc; Bloom, Harold

• ISBN13: 9780871406569
• ISBN10: 087140656X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-17
• Publisher: Liveright

Summary

This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart 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. A 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. Despite 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, The Bridge, is the most ambitious and accomplished long poem since Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. Marc Simon's text is accepted as the most authoritative presentation of Hart Crane's work available to us. For 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.

Author Biography

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Harold Bloom
Acknowledgments	xxxiii
POEMS OF HART CRANE
White Buildings
Legend	3	(1)
Black Tambourine	4	(1)
Emblems of Conduct	5	(1)
My Grandmother's Love Letters	6	(1)
Sunday Morning Apples	7	(1)
Praise for an Urn	8	(1)
Garden Abstract	9	(1)
Stark Major	10	(1)
Chaplinesque	11	(1)
Pastorale	12	(1)
In Shadow	13	(1)
The Fernery	14	(1)
North Labrador	15	(1)
Repose of Rivers	16	(1)
Paraphrase	17	(1)
Possessions	18	(1)
Lachrymae Christi	19	(2)
Passage	21	(2)
The Wine Menagerie	23	(2)
Recitative	25	(1)
For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen	26	(7)
At Melville's Tomb	33	(1)
Voyages, I, II, III, IV, V, VI	34	(9)
THE BRIDGE
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge	43	(68)
Ave Maria	45	(6)
Powhatan's Daughter	51	(18)
The Harbor Dawn	53	(2)
Van Winkle	55	(2)
The River	57	(5)
The Dance	62	(4)
Indiana	66	(3)
Cutty Sark	69	(6)
Cape Hatteras	75	(10)
Three Songs	85	(6)
Southern Cross	87	(2)
National Winter Garden	89	(1)
Virginia	90	(1)
Quaker Hill	91	(4)
The Tunnel	95	(8)
Atlantis	103	(8)
KEY WEST An Island Sheaf
O Carib Isle!	111	(2)
The Mermen	113	(1)
To the Cloud Juggler	114	(1)
The Mango Tree	115	(1)
Island Quarry	116	(1)
Old Song	117	(1)
The Idiot	118	(1)
A Name for All	119	(1)
Bacardi Spreads the Eagle's Wing	120	(1)
Imperator Victus	121	(1)
Royal Palm	122	(1)
The Air Plant	123	(1)
The Hurricane	124	(2)
KEY WEST Folder Subsection
Key West	126	(1)
---And Bees of Paradise	127	(1)
To Emily Dickinson	128	(1)
Moment Fugue	129	(1)
By Nilus Once I Knew...	130	(1)
To Shakespeare	131	(4)
Poems Uncollected but Published
Crane
C 33	135	(1)
October--November	136	(1)
The Hive	137	(1)
Fear	138	(1)
Annunciations	139	(1)
Echoes	140	(1)
The Bathers	141	(1)
Modern Craft	142	(1)
Carmen de Boheme	143	(1)
Exile	144	(1)
Postscript	145	(1)
Forgetfulness	146	(1)
To Portapovitch	147	(1)
Legende	148	(1)
Interior	149	(1)
Porphyro in Akron	150	(3)
A Persuasion	153	(1)
Three Locutions des Pierrots	154	(2)
The Great Western Plains	156	(1)
America's Plutonic Ecstasies	157	(1)
Interludium	158	(1)
March	159	(1)
The Broken Tower	160	(5)
Poems Unpublished
Crane
A Song for Happy Feast Days	165	(1)
Sonnet (``Ere elfish Night...'')	166	(1)
The Moth That God Made Blind	167	(3)
To Earth	170	(1)
Medusa	171	(1)
Meditation	172	(1)
Episode of Hands	173	(1)
The Bridge of Estador	174	(2)
After Jonah	176	(1)
Euclid Avenue	177	(2)
Of an Evening...	179	(2)
What Nots ?	181	(1)
In a Court	182	(1)
With a Photograph...	183	(1)
Supplication to the Muses...	184	(2)
Eternity	186	(2)
The Sad Indian	188	(1)
Hieroglyphic	189	(3)
Incomplete Works
This Way Where November...	192	(1)
Thou Canst Read Nothing...	193	(1)
To Liberty	194	(1)
To the Empress Josephine's Statue	195	(1)
A Postscript	196	(1)
The Pillar and the Post	197	(1)
The Visible the Untrue	198	(1)
A Traveller Born	199	(1)
Havana Rose	200	(2)
Purgatorio	202	(1)
The Circumstance	203	(3)
Fragments
To Buddha	206	(1)
Where Gables Pack...	207	(1)
Well/Well/Not-At-All	208	(1)
You Are That Frail...	209	(1)
The Masters	210	(1)
Her Eyes Had...	211	(1)
O Moon, Thou Cool...	212	(1)
The Sea Raised Up...	213	(1)
So Dream Thy Sails...	214	(1)
I Have That Sure Enclitic...	215	(1)
Shall I Subsume..	216	(1)
Tenderness and Resolution	217	(1)
Time Cannot be Worn...	218	(1)
I Rob My Breast...	219	(1)
Enrich My Resignation...	220	(1)
All This...	221	(1)
The Alert Pillow...	222	(1)
There Are the Local...	223	(1)
Dust Now Is...	224	(1)
They Were There...	225	(1)
To Conquer Variety	226	(1)
A Note on the Editorial Method	227	(2)
Notes	229	(30)
Index of First Lines	259	(5)
Index of Titles	264