The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932

PREFACE

“Of the poets who came into prominence during the 1930’s in America, none is more likely to achieve an immortality than Harold Hart Crane.” So write Horace Gregory and Marya Zaturenska in their recent, authoritative _History of American Poetry_. The extraordinary quality of Crane’s poetry and the tense drama of his brief life make such an observation valid and inevitable. It...