The Bridge (Paperback 1992)

The Bridge (Paperback 1992)

<p><strong>Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America.</strong></p> Begun in 1923 and published 1930, <em>The Bridge</em> is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge, symbol of our constructive future, our unique identity."