Certain of these poems have appeared in the following magazines: _Broom_, _The Dial_, _Double Dealer_, _Fugitive_, _Little Review_, _1924_, _Poetry_, _Secession_, and _The Calendar_ (London). The poetry of Hart Crane is ambitious. It is the only poetry I am acquainted with which is at once contemporary and in the grand manner. It is an American poetry. Crane’s themes are abstractly, metaphysically conceived, but they are definitely confined to an experience of the American scene. In such poems as The Wine Menagerie, For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen, Recitative, he is the poet of the complex urban civilization of his age: precision, abstraction, power. There is no _pastiche_; when he em…
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