Works, correspondence, galley proofs, clippings, and photographs, 1923-1933, 1961.

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Works, correspondence, galley proofs, clippings, and photographs, 1923-1933, 1961.

Hart Crane materials cataloged under his name include undated typescripts of AFTER JONAH, AVE MARIA, THE BRIDGE, FOR THE MARRIAGE OF FAUSTUS AND HELEN, THE MANGO TREE, O CARIB ISLE!, POWHATAN'S DAUGHTER [Parts II and IV], SUPPLICATION TO THE MUSES ON A TRYING DAY, THE TUNNEL, VOYAGES III, VOYAGES VI, and THE WINE MENAGERIE; galley proofs of THE BRIDGE (1930) and WHITE BUILDINGS (1926); seven letters (1923-1926) from Crane to Grace Hart Crane and/or Elizabeth B. Hart; two letters ([1926 Dec. 20], 1928 Dec. 26) and one postcard (1932 March 10) from Crane to Samuel Loveman; a list of names to receive review copies of THE BRIDGE and production notes; one holograph poem (1961 Sept. 16) by Harry Brown titled HART CRANE; and one copy of a letter, with a note (n.d.), from Malcolm Cowley to Lew Feldman about Hart Crane. The Contempo collection contains a typescript (1933 May) of a review by Evelyn Scott of THE COLLECTED POEMS OF HART CRANE, one letter (n.d.) from Hart Crane to M. A. Abernethy of Contempo, and one letter (n.d.) from William Carlos Williams to Abernethy about reviewing Hart Crane. The E. E. Cummings collection contains one letter (n.d.) from Hart Crane to Cummings and one autograph (n.d.) by Crane. The London Magazine collection contains a typescript (n.d.) of HART CRANE by Julian Symons. The Edith Sitwell collection contains a holograph manuscript (n.d.) of her HART CRANE: THE BRIDGE.

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Crane, Hart, 1899-1932

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At the time of his early death at thirty-two in 1932, Hart Crane was already recognized as a major American poet, though he had published only two volumes of poetry and a handful of poems in various magazines. Born in the small town of Garretsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, the only child of Clarence A. and Grace Hart Crane, Harold Hart Crane experienced an unsettling childhood and adolescence that undoubtedly affected his adult personal life and poetical career. Though he was freed of economi...