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The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
— Hart Crane
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Hart Crane
poet, writer
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1899 – 1932
Harold Hart Crane was an American poet. Inspired by the Romantics and his fellow Modernists, Crane wrote highly stylized poetry, often noted for its complexity. His collection White Buildings (1926), featuring "Chaplinesque", "At Melville's Tomb", "Repose of Rivers" and "Voyages", helped to cement his place in the avant-garde literary scene of the time. The long poem The Bridge (1930) is an epic inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge.
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His thoughts, delivered to meDelicate riders of the storm.
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There are no stars to-nightIn the loose girdle of soft rain.
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And Thee, across the harbor, silver-pacedImplicitly thy freedom staying thee!
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O harp and altar, of the fury fused,Prayer of pariah, and the lover’s cry,
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O Sleepless as the river under thee,And of the curveship lend a myth to God.
— Hart Crane