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Hart Crane

Hart Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on the same day that Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Crane published only two volumes of poetry during his lifetime, but those established Crane as one of

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Hart Crane born, 1899

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

Which poet critic initially praised Hart Crane as "one of the small group of contemporary masters" in a review in Poetry Magazine , only to write of Crane in a later review, "the flaws in Mr. Crane's genius are, I believe, so great as to partake, if they persist, almost of the nature of public catastrophe"?

Answer

Yvor Winters. Crane blamed Winters' later review of his long poem "The Bridge," for the poem's lack of success. The two, who had been friends and correspondents, never spoke again.

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