Hart Crane (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Harold Hart Crane was an innovative and vital poet whose relatively small body of work established him as a significant twentieth century American poet. He was the only child of a prosperous family of New England background. Crane suffered an unhappy childhood, his affections divided between his estranged parents. Beginning when he was sixteen years old, he drifted from city to city, writing poetry as he moved. Following publication of one of his poems in The Little Review when he was eighteen, he rejected an opportunity to go to college. Instead, pursuing his interest in books,...
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