A selective list of online literary criticism for Hart Crane, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages
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Bedient, Calvin. "Grand Failure." On Hart Crane's career and the new Library of American edition of his poems, edited by Langdon Hammer, Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, Boston Review, March/April 2007
Dyson, David A. "Philosophy and Literary Criticism." Establishing a link between philosophy and literary criticism, using Hart Crane's poetry as an example. Poetry Nation 6 (1976)
Smith, Ernest J. An introduction to Hart Crane from the Literary Encyclopedia, 21 March 2003
Vendler, Helen. "The Terrible Details of Hart Crane's Life -- Necessary to an Understanding of His Poetry." A review of Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane, by John Unterecker. NYTimes, 7/20/69
Biography of Hart Crane from Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois). Also critical commentary for the following poems: Black Tambourine, Chaplinesque, Episode of Hands, Porphyro in Akron, Voyages I, Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge, Ave Maria, The River, Cape Hatteras, Atlantis, The Mango Tree
An extended, introductory article on Hart Crane's career, includes list of his works and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation
A 1930 review of "The Bridge." "Hart Crane's Cubistic Poetry." Reviewed by Percy Hutchinson, NYTimes, 4/27/30
A web site on teaching Hart Crane from the Annenberg/PBS project "American Passages."
Short news article on Hart Crane contrasts his obscure poetry with his straightforward correspondence
Documents in the Hart Crane collections at Kent State Univ., from the KSU library
A brief introduction to Hart Crane from The Academy of American Poets
Questions for discussion teachers and readers of Crane's poetry, from Heath guides (taken offline or moved)
Ormsby, Eric. "The last Elizabethan: Hart Crane at 100," in The New Criterion, Vol. 19, No. 6, February 2001 (taken offline or moved)
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