Hart Crane’s Death – Cause and Date

The poet Hart Crane died at the age of 32. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

American modernist and romantic poet known for White Buildings, The Bridge, and other complex works. His shorter pieces include “The River,” “The Broken Tower,” and “Repose of Rivers.”

He had a sexual relationship with a woman named Peggy Cowley that inspired his poem “The Broken Tower.” The majority of his romantic relationships, however, were with men.

Quotes

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Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.

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And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I’ll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

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I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed – not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered.

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And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

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The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I’m at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.