The poet and critic Randall Jarrell singled out "the mesmeric rhetoric of 'Voyages II' one of the most beautiful of all of those poems in which love, death, and sleep 'are fused for an instant in one floating flower '". Crane responded to this criticism by calling Wilson's article "half-baked".
not, so far as one can see, applied to any subject at all". almost something like a great style, if there could be such a thing as a great style. In The New Republic, Edmund Wilson wrote that Crane had "a remarkable style. One notable review of the book was mixed. Reviews Īccording to the Poetry Foundation, "this work earned substantial respect as an imposing stylist, one whose lyricism and imagery recalled the French Romantics Baudelaire and Rimbaud". The Complete Poems of Hart Crane Mass Market Paperback Januby Hart Crane (Author) 100 ratings Hardcover 24.29 12 Used from 14.91 5 New from 20.05 1 Collectible from 30.00 Paperback 16.95 36 Used from 3.77 20 New from 11.07 Mass Market Paperback 12.98 10 Used from 8.49 2 New from 15. Preface Įugene O'Neill was happy to help Crane by writing a preface to White Buildings, but, increasingly frustrated with his failure to articulate an understanding of the poems, left it to Allen Tate to finish the piece. The book features well-known pieces like "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen," the " Voyages" series, and some of his most famous lyrics including "My Grandmother's Love Letters" and "Chaplinesque." Harold Bloom has argued that this collection alone, if perhaps taken with his later lyric, ' The Broken Tower,' could have secured Crane's reputation as one of the best American poets of the 20th century. White Buildings was the first collection (1926) of poetry by Hart Crane, an American modernist poet, critical to both lyrical and language poetic traditions.
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