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Hart Crane's Poetry - "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio" (Paperback)
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Hart Crane's Poetry - "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio" (Paperback)
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In one of his letters Hart Crane wrote, "Appollinaire lived in
Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio," comparing - misspelling and all
- the great French poet's cosmopolitan roots to his own more modest
ones in the midwestern United States. Rebelling against the notion
that his work should relate to some European school of thought,
Crane defiantly asserted his freedom to be himself, a true American
writer. John T. Irwin, long a passionate and brilliant critic of
Crane, gives readers the first major interpretation of the poet's
work in decades. Irwin aims to show that Hart Crane's epic The
Bridge is the best twentieth-century long poem in English. Irwin
convincingly argues that, compared to other long poems of the
century, The Bridge is the richest and most wide-ranging in its
mythic and historical resonances, the most inventive in its
combination of literary and visual structures, the most subtle and
compelling in its psychological underpinnings. Irwin brings a
wealth of new and varied scholarship to bear on his critical
reading of the work - from art history to biography to classical
literature to philosophy - revealing The Bridge to be the
near-perfect synthesis of American myth and history that Crane
intended. Irwin contends that the most successful entryway to
Crane's notoriously difficult shorter poems is through a close
reading of The Bridge. Having admirably accomplished this, Irwin
analyzes Crane's poems in White Buildings and his last poem, "The
Broken Tower," through the larger context of his epic, showing how
Crane, in the best of these, worked out the structures and images
that were fully developed in The Bridge. Thoughtful, deliberate,
and extraordinarily learned, this is the most complete and careful
reading of Crane's poetry available. Hart Crane may have lived in
Cleveland, Ohio, but, as Irwin masterfully shows, his poems stand
among the greatest written in the English language.
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