Harold Hart Crane was born in Ohio in 1899. In 1923 he became a copy-writer in New York. White Buildings, his first collection, appeared in 1926, and in 1930 his most famous work, The Bridge, was published. A reaction against the pessimism in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, The Bridge was a love song to the myth of America and its optimism a much needed boon to post-Wall Street Crash America. Hart Crane committed suicide in 1932.

This selection of American poet Hart Crane's poems is chosen by Maurice Riordan. It is an admiring and illuminating collection of work from 'the Romantic poet of the twentieth century'.

About the Author
Maurice Riordan has published two collections of poetry, A Word from the Loki (1995) and Floods (2000) - and is co-editor of two anthologies, A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science (2001) and Wild Reckoning: an anthology provoked by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (2004). He teaches creative writing at Imperial College London.

Reviews
"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"



Book Information
ISBN 9780571238033
Author Maurice Riordan
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 83g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 120mm * 9mm