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...HART CRANE: THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN POET—Philip Horton—Norton...
...MacLeish, Conrad Aiken. Which, if any, will still be remembered by the 21st Century? Eliot and Pound, heading most contemporary lists, seem fairly safe. Last week another name was proposed for the Hall of Fame; and Proposer Philip Horton seemed sure that posterity would second his nomination of Hart Crane, who led a violent life, met a violent...
Harold Hart Crane was born in 1899 in Warren, Ohio, only child of comfortably middle-class parents. His mother and father were always quarreling, separating, making up; little Harold was an agonized and helpless onlooker. He was a sturdy child but extremely sensitive. When he was nine his parents parted; his mother went to a sanatorium and Harold was sent to Cleveland to live with his grandmother. Passionately interested in poetry and not much interested in school, he made few friends there; but he landed his first poem (in a Greenwich Village magazine) when he was 16. When his mother...
...next few years Hart Crane got his education: a queer mixture of little magazines, Greenwich Village society and odd jobs. He worked brief spells in a munitions factory, a shipyard, a newspaper office. When he was jobless or in financial straits, which was most of the time, friends lent him money and put him up. A prickly guest, he was always quick to take offense...
...Crane's dilemma was to earn enough money to live on and write poetry at the same time. For a while he thought he had solved it, when he made a success as an advertising copy writer. But the better he became as copy writer the less time he had for poetry. Finally he chucked his job, depended thereafter on friends and windfalls. Banker Otto Kahn, when Crane appealed to him, gave him $1,000; later another $1,500. Crane's family and friends. and very rarely a check from an editor, supplied the rest of his income...