Hart Crane

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Hart Crane (born July 21, 1899 in Garrettsville , Ohio , † April 26, 1932 in Florida ) was an American poet.

Life

Hart Crane's father was Clarence A. Crane, a successful businessman in the confectionery industry, and his mother was Grace Edna Hart. He grew up in different cities in Ohio. The parents' marriage was a conflictual one and ended in divorce in 1916. Crane was drawn into countless marital disputes, especially through his mother, so that the son was turned against the father. Crane spent long periods (1909-1916) of his childhood with his maternal grandmother, in whose estate he studied poetry and literature at an early age. Throughout his life he was unable to completely break away from the influence of his mother - or his entire family. A reconciliation with his father, who was married twice after the divorce, came about a year before Crane's death.

At the age of 16, Crane published his first poem. He did not graduate from high school but received permission from his parents at the age of 17 to study in New York to study. At the time he was working as a reporter for the Plain Dealer in Cleveland and as a candy salesman in a pharmacy . Hart Crane worked as a copywriter in New York . During this time, Crane changed homes frequently and lived with a few friends on various farms in southern Connecticut .

With a Guggenheim grant , he was able to live and work in the Caribbean and Mexico . In 1926 he experienced a boost in productivity in Cuba and wrote a large part of his long poem Die Brücke there . Crane received literary inspiration from the French Symbolists , from Walt Whitman , Algernon Swinburne , TS Eliot , the Metaphysical Poets and the sea novels Herman Melville .

He published two volumes of poetry, White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930), whose publications were accompanied by financial worries and bad reviews, especially for The Bridge . In Voyages , he specifically addressed his experiences as a homosexual in a hostile environment.

On April 27, 1932, he committed suicide by jumping off the ship SS Orziba into the Gulf of Mexico . His body was never found.

meaning

Crane's cycle of poems The Bridge over New York's Brooklyn Bridge is considered a key text of American modernism, in which myths and advertising slogans, technology and big city experiences, blues and gospel songs are incorporated. Crane thus created a language and social analysis as well as a sound image of bizarre beauty.

Publications

Editions in the English original (selection)

  • White Buildings , Liveright Publishing Co., New York NY 1926
  • The Bridge , Liveright Publishing Co., New York NY 1930
  • The collected poems of Hart Crane , edited by Frank Waldo, Liveright Publishing Co. NY (1933)
  • The complete poems of Hart Crane , edited by Frank Waldo, New York: Doubleday 1958 (Doubleday anchor book, A 128)
  • The Complete poems and selected letters and prose of Hart Crane , edited with an introduction and notes by Brom Weber, London: Oxford University Press 1968
  • The complete poems and selected letters and prose , editel by Brom Weber and David Frank Waldo, London: Oxford University Press 1972
  • Complete poems of Hart Crane , edited by Marc Simon, with a new Introduction by Harold Bloom . Liveright, New York NY et al. 2001, ISBN 0-87140-656-X )

Issues in German translation

  • White buildings , trans. from the American English by Joachim Uhlmann, Berlin: Karl-H. Henssel Verlag 1960 (The new lot. Volume 4)
  • Moment Fugue (English-German), trans. from the American English by Dieter Leisegang , Darmstadt: JG Bläschke Verlag (1966)
  • White buildings. Poems (= luxbooks.americana ), from the American by Christian Lux. With an afterword by Timothy Donelly and illustrations by Bruno Zaid. Christian Lux, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-939557-22-7
  • The bridge. A poem , taken from American English and commented on by Ute Eisinger. With an afterword by Klaus Reichert. Jung und Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-902144-71-8 (text in German and English)

Scores

  • Voyage , Elliott Carter / Hart Crane, New York, Hamburg: Associated Music Publishers, Administration: G. Schirmer s. a.
  • Voyages II , in: Seven musical compositions: And silent answers, University of Southern California 2010, also as an e-book

literature

  • Joseph Schwartz: Hart Crane. An Annotated Critical Bibliography. Lewis, New York NY 1970, ISBN 0-912012-11-0
  • Hart Crane. America's plutonic ecstasy , in: Akzente, 29. Jg., 1982, No. 6, pp. 489-547
  • Warner Berthoff: Hart Crane. A Re-introduction University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis MN 1989, ISBN 0-8166-1701-5
  • Paul Giles: Hart Crane. The Contexts of "The Bridge". Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1986, ISBN 0-521-32074-7
  • David R. Clark (Ed.): Critical Essays on Hart Crane GK Hall, Boston MA 1982, ISBN 0-8161-8380-5
  • Alfred Hanley: Hart Crane's Holy Vision: "White Buildings". Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh PA 1981, ISBN 0-8207-0151-3
  • Roger Ramsey: A Poetics of "The Bridge". In: Twentieth Century Literature: Vol. 26, 1980, ISSN  0041-462X , pp. 278-293
  • John Unterecker: Voyager. A Life of Hart Crane. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York NY 1969
  • Heinz Ickstadt Hart Crane: The Broken Tower , in: The American Poetry: From Colonial Times to the Present , ed. by Klaus Lubbers, Düsseldorf, August Bagel Verlag, pp. 306–316

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Brooklyn Bridge Symphony With Hart Crane's poem "The Bridge" about New York's landmarks. By Holmar Attila Mück. Deutschlandradio Kultur , April 17, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

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personal data
SURNAME Crane, hard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Garrettsville , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1932
Place of death Florida