The Bridge (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hart Crane
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Long poem
- Genres: Poetry, Epic, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: History, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Mythology or myths, New York City, American Dream, Native Americans or American Indians, Birds, Democracy, Frontier or pioneer life, Exploration or explorers, Bridges, Modernism
- Locales: New York, NY, North Carolina, Midwest (U.S.), New England
The book-length poem The Bridge far surpasses in scope anything else Crane attempted. In “For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen,” he had indicated how the energies of ancient mythic symbols still exist in modern times. In this larger work, he attempts to explain how primary American myths are embedded in current consciousness and, further, how these myths are basically emancipatory, pointing the United States to a future of ethnic harmony and a valuing of artistic achievement.
One thing that spurred Crane to the creation of this work was his reading of Eliot's The...
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