/lit/ - Literature

I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light
In the bitter dance of loneliness, fading into space
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face

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>Just before noon on April 27, 1932, Crane jumped overboard into the Gulf of Mexico. Although he had been drinking heavily and left no suicide note, witnesses believed his intentions to be suicidal, as several reported that he exclaimed "Goodbye, everybody!" before throwing himself overboard. His body was never recovered.

Ohio writers go out hard

Why do we human beings enjoy stories and poetry? Why is our imagination so important to us? Why aren't we just intellectual creatures who classify and catalogue their surroundings in purely objective terms—why do we go a step further and throw gods and heroes at nature's expanse, and construct gardens of eden out of the cruel and untamed wilderness?

What does /lit/ think about Hart Crane (PBUH)?

What do you think of Hart Crane's poetic tribute to Herman Melville?

"At Melville's Tomb"

Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
The dice of drowned men’s bones he saw bequeath
An embassy. Their numbers as he watched,
Beat on the dusty shore and were obscured.

And wrecks passed without sound of bells,
The calyx of death’s bounty giving back
A scattered chapter, livid hieroglyph,
The portent wound in corridors of shells.

Then in the circuit calm of one vast coil,
Its lashings charmed and malice reconciled,
Frosted eyes there were that lifted altars;
And silent answers crept across the stars.

Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive
No farther tides ... High in the azure steeps
Monody shall not wake the mariner.
This fabulous shadow only the sea keeps.

American or English Poets? Which do you like better?

>Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Provoked and inspired by T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, The Bridge, Crane sought to write an epic poem, in the vein of The Waste Land, that expressed a more optimistic view of modern, urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work. In the years following his suicide at the age of 32, Crane has been hailed by playwrights, poets, and literary critics alike (including Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Tennessee Williams, and Harold Bloom), as being one of the most influential poets of his generation.
>Crane was admired by artists such as Allen Tate, Eugene O'Neill, Kenneth Burke, Edmund Wilson, E. E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams. Although Hart had his sharp critics, among them Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound, Moore did publish his work, as did T. S. Eliot, who, moving even further out of Pound's sphere, may have borrowed some of Crane's imagery for Four Quartets, in the beginning of East Coker, which is reminiscent of the final section of "The River", from The Bridge.

What are some ambitious writers that are considered somewhat technically incompetent? I want to read some interesting stuff conjured out of sheer force of will rather than erudition.

>hear Bloom call him one of the greatest American poets
>start reading him
>his work is either completely undecipherable or cringe-inducingly sentimental
Why do people like him? His poems don't make any sense, and when they do make sense, you wish that they didn't.

"This section of Brooklyn is very old, but all the houses are in splendid condition and have not been invaded by foreigners..."

Why are writers so often xenophobic?

Gentle reminder that American literature has been the most innovative, influential, mature, and challenging national literature since 1945. Anybody who questions this can only be doing so out of resentment for their cultural subservience to the United States, because it is virtually impossible for somebody even vaguely familiar with trends in contemporary literature to deny American supremacy. See also: cinema, pop music, television

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rubbish