April 06, 2007

Books

An American Voice

Hart CraneComplete Poems & Selected LettersHart CraneLibrary of America, $40, 864 pp.

William H. Pritchard

With this volume, Hart Crane joins Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens in the Library of America publications of twentieth-century poets. Crane can be easily fitted into their eight-hundred-page format since his total poetic output, including unpublished poems, amounts to only a hundred and fifty pages; so the bulk of the volume is a very full selection of his lette (...)


 

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