Dec 26, 2009
The Bridge belongs to the tradition of the long poem in America—they are works that ask philosophical and religious questions about life and the fate of nations. Walt Whitman was the originator of this mode of lyrical epic Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855. Others who followed Whitman’s techniques in the long poem include Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot; William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, and Charles Olson wrote long poems in the post-World War II era. Hart Crane’s effort to write his own sequential work found a rich context from which to...
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