Hart Crane’s brief poetic career can be seen as an ambitious response to TS Eliot’s intimidating tome, The Wasteland. Rejecting Eliot’s despondency and cynicism over the advent of the modern world, Crane sought to celebrate the intoxicating excitement of being alive in a transformative time.
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