Hart Crane Quotes


I can remember much forgetfulness.


Citations

Crane, Hart. "Forgetfulness." The Collected Poems of Hart Crane, edited by Waldo Frank, Liveright, 1933.

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Hart Crane
Hart Crane
  • Born: July 21, 1899
  • Died: April 27, 1932
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Harold Hart Crane was an American poet. Provoked and inspired by 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 age of 32, Crane has been hailed by playwrights, poets, and literary critics alike (including Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Tennessee Williams, and Harold Bloom), as being one of the most influential poets of his generation.