4 good links
- Hart Crane Resources
Annotated bibliography and more, with a focus on his art and sexuality
- Modern American Poetry
With a long meaty bio of Crane, plus analysis of his poems
- American Academy of Poets
A biography and brief poetical analysis
- Hart Crane
New York Times archive of stories and reviews
Hart Crane Biography
Bright, volatile, short-lived and hard-drinking, Crane was in some ways an archetype of the Roaring Twenties author. Crane is best known for The Bridge (1930), an epic vision of American life with the Brooklyn Bridge as a central image. Crane is often compared to Walt Whitman, both for his modern American sensibilities and for the homoerotic imagery some find in his work. In sheer style Crane also resembled T.S. Eliot, whom he admired. Crane committed suicide by leaping from the S.S. Orizaba in 1932.
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Crane was no relation to Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage.
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