Visionary Company: Hart Crane and Modernist Periodicals

ISBN-13: 9781474481519 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 264 str.

Francesca Bratton

Opis

This book examines the poetry of Hart Crane and his circle within transnational modernist periodical culture. It reappraises Crane's poetry and reception and introduces several lost works by the poet, including critical prose, reviews and 'Nopal', a poem written in Mexico. Through its exploration of Crane's close engagement with periodical culture, it provides a rich and detailed panorama of twentieth-century literary and artistic communities. In particular, this monograph offers a vivid portrait of forgotten periodicals and their artistic communities, examines the periodical contexts in which modernist poetry fused material and aesthetic experimentation and explores Crane's important and neglected influence on modern and contemporary poetry.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. ‘Imagist in Amber’: Post-Decadent Poetry and Greenwich Village
2. ‘Are you Futuristic or are you not?’: Adversarial Editing and European Avant-Gardes
3. ‘Champion Mixed Metaphors’: Graduating to The Dial and Poetry
4. ‘A Scattered Chapter’: Publishing The Bridge
5. ‘They have been lost’: A Year in Mexico City

Epilogue: ‘The Shelley of my age’: Hart Crane’s Afterlives

Bibliography

Appendix:

1. An overview of Crane’s periodical publishers
2. Timeline of Crane’s periodical publications
3. Timeline of Crane’s periodical rejections