Crane Publishes The Bridge
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Poetry, Poets
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: New York City
- Date: February, 1930
Article abstract: This dauntingly ambitious and difficult modernist poem was characteristic of its times in Crane’s effort to see modern urban America in mythological terms.
Summary of Event
Hart Crane began work on his long poem The Bridge in 1923. He conceived this epic work as a rejoinder to the pessimism and sense of apocalyptic decline expressed in T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem The Waste Land, which had been published in 1922. Though Crane much admired Eliot, he felt The Waste Land, with its representation of the sterility of...
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