The poetry of Hart Crane : a critical study / R.W.B. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, R. W. B. (Richard Warrington Baldwin), author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crane, Hart, 1899-1932.

Crane, Hart.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1967.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

One of the leading critics of our time, R.W.B. Lewis, charts the career of Hart Crane's imagination-of his vision, his rhetoric, and his craft. Crane, who has heretofore been assigned a relatively minor place in American letters, emerges from this rich, dense book as one of the finest poets in our language. Mr. Lewis traces the development of the theme which runs through all of Crane's poetry-the need for the visionary and loving transfiguration of the actual world-and claims that it is this theme which gives Crane's poetry its extraordinary consistency. Mr. Lewis also relates Crane's development as poet to the Anglo-American Romantic tradition and argues that Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, and Emerson are vital to an understanding of Crane's work.Originally published in 1967.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Ι. THE ESCAPE FROM IRONY

CHAPTER ONE. Geographies

CHAPTER TWO. Poetry and the Actual

CHAPTER THREE. Chaplinesque

CHAPTER FOUR. "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen"

CHAPTER FIVE. The Impenitent Song

CHAPTER SIX. "Voyages"

CHAPTER SEVEN. The Visionary Lyric

II. THE BRIDGE A GRACE TO OUR HISTORY

CHAPTER EIGHT. In the Country of the Blind

CHAPTER NINE. "Proem" and "Ave Maria": The Post-Christian Idiom

CHAPTER TEN. "Powhatan's Daughter"

CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Road to Quaker Hill

CHAPTER TWELVE. "The Tunnel" and "Atlantis": The Rhythm of The Bridge

III. KEY WEST AND OTHERS

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Thresholds Old and New

Index of Crane's Writings

General Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliographical footnotes.

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ISBN:

9780691649719

0691649715

9781400878482

1400878489

OCLC:

966768228