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Title: The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932
Original Publication: New York: Hermitage House, 1952.
Credits: Tim Lindell, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Summary: "The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932" by Hart Crane is a collection of letters written in the mid-20th century. The volume, edited and framed by Brom Weber, assembles the poet’s correspondence to reveal his artistic formation, personal entanglements, and the lived background of major works like The Bridge. Expect a candid self-portrait of a modernist poet negotiating ambition, love, illness, and literary community. The opening of the collection presents Weber’s preface and chronology, positioning Crane as a major American poet and explaining why the letters matter: they are emotionally frank, often written across distance, and closely intertwined with periods of peak poetic productivity. Weber outlines an editorial approach of minimal interference and full candor (tempered only to avoid harming living individuals), argues against judging the poetry by the life, and sketches Crane’s recurring struggles with relationships, sexuality, alcohol, and self-sabotage. A concise life outline follows (Ohio youth; early New York immersion; advertising work; the conception, funding, and completion of The Bridge; travel; the Guggenheim; death at sea). The first letters (1916–1920) then show a young writer juggling exams, early publication, and a headlong entry into New York’s literary world (meeting figures like Padraic Colum and Vachel Lindsay), alongside money and housing woes, parental divorce tensions, and flirtations with Christian Science. They also trace his return to Ohio to work for his father, his deepening ties with fellow writers and editors, the drafting of “My Grandmother’s Love Letters,” sharp literary opinions, and a discreetly acknowledged love affair—establishing the tone of urgency, vulnerability, and craft that will carry through the correspondence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 69.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Author: Crane, Hart, 1899-1932
Editor: Weber, Brom, 1917-1998
EBook No.: 76626
Published: Aug 3, 2025
Downloads: 1457
Language: English
Subject: Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Subject: Crane, Hart, 1899-1932. Correspondence
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932
Original Publication: New York: Hermitage House, 1952.
Credits: Tim Lindell, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Summary: "The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932" by Hart Crane is a collection of letters written in the mid-20th century. The volume, edited and framed by Brom Weber, assembles the poet’s correspondence to reveal his artistic formation, personal entanglements, and the lived background of major works like The Bridge. Expect a candid self-portrait of a modernist poet negotiating ambition, love, illness, and literary community. The opening of the collection presents Weber’s preface and chronology, positioning Crane as a major American poet and explaining why the letters matter: they are emotionally frank, often written across distance, and closely intertwined with periods of peak poetic productivity. Weber outlines an editorial approach of minimal interference and full candor (tempered only to avoid harming living individuals), argues against judging the poetry by the life, and sketches Crane’s recurring struggles with relationships, sexuality, alcohol, and self-sabotage. A concise life outline follows (Ohio youth; early New York immersion; advertising work; the conception, funding, and completion of The Bridge; travel; the Guggenheim; death at sea). The first letters (1916–1920) then show a young writer juggling exams, early publication, and a headlong entry into New York’s literary world (meeting figures like Padraic Colum and Vachel Lindsay), alongside money and housing woes, parental divorce tensions, and flirtations with Christian Science. They also trace his return to Ohio to work for his father, his deepening ties with fellow writers and editors, the drafting of “My Grandmother’s Love Letters,” sharp literary opinions, and a discreetly acknowledged love affair—establishing the tone of urgency, vulnerability, and craft that will carry through the correspondence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 69.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Author: Crane, Hart, 1899-1932
Editor: Weber, Brom, 1917-1998
EBook No.: 76626
Published: Aug 3, 2025
Downloads: 1457
Language: English
Subject: Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Subject: Crane, Hart, 1899-1932. Correspondence
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.