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Hart Crane

Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 in Garrettsville, Ohio, United States - April 26, 1932) was a U.S poet. He was the son of Clarence Crane, the inventor of Life Savers candy.

In the 1920s, Crane had begun to drink heavily. In Montparnasse, at the café Le Sélect, a drunken Hart Crane got into a scrap. He decked four waiters and knocked out a policeman before being subdued. By age thirty, Crane had the physical appearance of an old man. A friend of Man Ray, his photo appeared in Vanity Fair in 1929.

His major published works were White Buildings (published in 1926) and The Bridge (published in 1930).

Crane committed suicide by leaping from the deck of the S. S. Orizaba somewhere off the Florida coast just before noon on April 26, 1932.

Hart Crane's Poetry:

• White Buildings (1926)
• The Bridge (1930)
• The Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose (1966)

External link

• Modern American Poetry: Hart Crane (1899-1932)

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