Volume 5, Number 12 · January 20, 1966
Hart Crane
By Edward Dahlberg
The Letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932
edited by Brom Weber
University of California, 426 pp., $2.25 (paper)
The life of Hart Crane was a bacchic orgy; he knew no other way to live or compose his poems. As Quevedo wrote: 'He rode post to perdition.' Though I realize that humdrum everyday existence cannot be a gloss upon the poem, it might be of niggish interest to the reader to have some intelligence of Crane as a person. I knew him, and there were some similarities in our lives which, though no more than gossip, tease the blood and the veins.
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