Contributor
Bloom, Harold.
Imprint:Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003.
Description153 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Biography of Hart Crane. - Critical analysis of "Voyages". - The influence of Moby Dick on Crane / Joseph Warren Beach. - Understanding "Voyages II" / Sidney Richman. - Critics' misreadings of "Voyages" / Evelyn J. Hinz. - Crane's use of metaphors / John T. Irwin. - Spirituality in "Voyages VI" / Paul Ramsey. - Celeste M. Schenck compares works of Whitman and Crane. - "Voyages III" / William Empson, Bernard Heringman, and John Unterecker. - Critical analysis of "Repose of Rivers". - Crane's lyrical transcendence / Samuel Hazo. - Crane's disconsolate perspective of his career / R. W. B. Lewis. - "Repose of Rovers" as a poem of escape / M. D. Uroff. - Crane's poem in the Romantic tradition / Robert Combs. - How a vision grows out of childhood memories / Alfred Hanley. - Homosexuality in the poem / Thomas E. Yingling. - Critical analysis of "Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge". - R. P. Blackmur calls Crane a great failure. - Crane's achievement / Hyatt Howe. - Crane's interpretation of the platonic myth / Joseph J. Arpad. - Crane's mosiac structure of imagery / Herbert A. Leibowitz. - Crane's presentation of the imaginative process / Richard P. Sugg. - Crane's view of the search for revelation / Helge Normann Nilsen. - Poets' views of the city over time / Gert Buelens. - Critical analysis of "The Tunnel". - The "Intensity of Sensation" / Allen Tate. - The poet's quest for revelation / Lawrence Dembo. - The power of Crane's mutating imagery / Bernice Slote. - The lack of hope in "The Tunnel" / Brom Weber. - The poet's continual quest for vision / Thomas A. Vogler. - George S. Lensing compares "The Tunnel" to "The Waste Land". - Critical analysis of "The Broken Tower". - Crane's understanding of his limitations / Marius Bewley. - Getting beyond the poem's obscurities / Henry Braun. - Crane's commentary on the visionary quest / George A. Knox. - Crane's proclamation of victory in the poem / M. D. Uroff. - Lee Edelman sees Crane dismissing a transcendent vision. - Alan Williamson illustrates Crane's altered perspective on love.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
