Hart Crane
Hart Crane
Harold Hart Cranewas an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, The Bridge, Crane sought to write an epic poem, in the vein of The Waste Land, that expressed a more optimistic view of modern, urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work. In the years following his suicide at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 July 1899
CountryUnited States of America