Harold Hart Crane was born in Ohio in 1899. In 1923 he became a copy-writer in New York.
White Buildings, his first collection, appeared in 1926, and in 1930 his most famous work,
The Bridge, was published. A reaction against the pessimism in T. S. Eliot's
The Waste Land,
The Bridge was a love song to the myth of America and its optimism a much needed boon to post-Wall Street Crash America. Hart C...