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Description for White Buildings
Paperback. Crane's first collection of poems, published when he was twenty-seven, displays a prodigious gift already at the height of its powers. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 7. Weight in Grams: 132.
This first book of poems by hart Crane, one of his three major collections, was originally published in 1926. The themes in White Buildings are abstract and metaphysical, but Crane's associations and images spring from the American scene. Eugene O'Neill wrote: "Hart Crane's poems are profound and deep-seeking. In them he reveals, with a new insight and unique power, the mystic undertones of beauty which move words to express vision." "Genius is a mystery resistant to reductive analysis, whether sociobiological, psychological, or historical. Like Milton, Pope, and Tennyson, the youthful Crane was a consecrated poet before he was an adolescent."—Harold ... Read more
This first book of poems by hart Crane, one of his three major collections, was originally published in 1926. The themes in White Buildings are abstract and metaphysical, but Crane's associations and images spring from the American scene. Eugene O'Neill wrote: "Hart Crane's poems are profound and deep-seeking. In them he reveals, with a new insight and unique power, the mystic undertones of beauty which move words to express vision." "Genius is a mystery resistant to reductive analysis, whether sociobiological, psychological, or historical. Like Milton, Pope, and Tennyson, the youthful Crane was a consecrated poet before he was an adolescent."—Harold ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780871401793
SKU
V9780871401793
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Ref
99-99
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