IT would be difficult to conceive a more tragic and wretched and in many ways sordid story than Mr. Philip Horton gives us in his life of Hart Crane; and it is greatly to Mr. Horton’s credit that out ...

“A Crane Takes Flight” aims to take a fresh look at Ohio native Hart Crane, a renowned American poet. Evolution Theatre Company’s world premiere of Mark Phillips Schwamberger’s play will open Sept. 8 ...

Crane's strenuous optimism about America, his barely coded celebrations of homoerotic desire and his bejeweled, dense, late Romantic language made him perhaps the most fiercely cherished of modernists ...

For Hart Crane’s first book of poems, the slender White Buildings (1926), there was a whole bouquet of reviews to die for. True, the owlish Edmund Wilson was not impressed: “almost something like a ...

The escape from irony. Geographies -- Poetry and the actual -- Chaplinesque -- "For the marriage of Faustus and Helen" -- The impenitent song -- "Voyages" -- The visionary lyric -- The bridge: a grace ...