"in poems such as 'The Tunnel' and 'Cutty Sark.' The book’s opening, 'Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge,' is indicative of Crane’s ecstatic, symbolic vision of the modern city. . .However, [because of his suicide in April 1932,] Crane would never again complete anything as complex or compelling as ""The Bridge""."" According to the 1988 ""Voices and Visions"" PBS documentary on Crane, when Crane first began to write ""The Bridge"", he ""felt. . .stuck and was incapable of writing more than a few lines."" Around this time Crane wrote, ""Emotionally I should like to write ""The Bridge"". Intellectually the whole theme seems"
"""""The Bridge"" is symphonic in including all the strands: Columbus, conquest of water, land, Pocahontas, subways, offices. ""The Bridge"", in becoming a ship, a world, a woman, a tremendous harp as it does finally, seems to really have a career."" The Bridge (long poem) The Bridge, first published in 1930 by the Black Sun Press, is Hart Crane's first, and only, attempt at a long poem. (Its primary status as either an epic or a series of lyrical poems remains contested; recent criticism tends to read it as a hybrid, perhaps indicative of a new genre, the ""modernist epic."") ""The"
"Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, ""The Bridge"", Crane sought to write an epic poem, in the vein of ""The Waste Land"", that expressed a more optimistic view of modern, urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work. In the years following his suicide at the age of 32, Crane has been hailed by playwrights, poets,"
"to ""The Waste Land"", because Hart Crane did, though he went down fighting the poem. The glory of ""The Bridge"" (1930) is its ambivalent warfare with ""The Waste Land"", without which Crane would not have been the miracle he was."". Still, the poet/critic Randall Jarrell had much more mixed feelings about the lack of overall consistency in the epic, writing, ""Hart Crane's ""The Bridge"" does not succeed as a unified work of art, partly because some of its poems are bad or mediocre;"" nevertheless, Jarrell goes on to write, ""how wonderful parts of ""The Bridge"" are! 'Van Winkle' is one"
"learn that one of its key builders, Washington Roebling, had once lived at the same address. The first edition of the book features photographs by Crane's friend, the photographer Walker Evans. ""The Bridge"" comprises 15 lyric poems of varying length and scope. In style, it mixes near-Pindaric declamatory metre, free verse, sprung metre, Elizabethan diction and demotic language at various points between alternating stanzas and often in the same stanzas. In terms of its acoustical coherence, it requires its reader, novelly, to follow both end-paused and non end-paused enjambments in a style Crane intended to be redolent of the flow"
"That evening Crosby's friend Hart Crane threw a party to celebrate his completion after seven years of his poem, ""The Bridge"", which was to be published by the Black Sun Press, and to bid Harry and Caresse ""bon voyage"", since they were due to sail back to France the next week. The party went on until nearly dawn, and Harry and Caresse made plans to see Crane again on December 10 to see the play ""Berkeley Square"" before they left for Europe. On December 9, Josephine, who instead of returning to Boston had stayed with one of her bridesmaids in"
"work was inspired by the beginning of Hart Crane's poem ""The Bridge"" as it describes New York Harbor and the Brooklyn Bridge. The work is scored for a large orchestra divided into three ensembles. The first ensemble comprises three horns, two trumpets, two trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, and strings (violins, violas, cellos, and basses). The second ensemble comprises two clarinets (doubling bass clarinet), E-flat clarinet, percussion, and strings (violins, cellos, and basses). The third ensemble comprises two flutes, piccolo, two oboes, cor anglais, two bassoons, contrabassoon, two horns, percussion, and strings (violins, violas, and basses). The composition has been"
"The Bridge (short story) ""The Bridge"" (German: ""Die Brücke"") is a short story by Franz Kafka. It was published posthumously in ""Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer"" (Berlin, 1931). The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in ""The Great Wall of China. Stories and Reflections"" (New York City: Schocken Books, 1946). The story is told from the first person point of view. In the tale, the bridge discusses how, above the ravine, it grasps onto each end. When someone, or something, begins to suddenly place pressure on the"
"East Coker, which is reminiscent of the final section of The River, from The Bridge. Important mid-century American poets like John Berryman and Robert Lowell cited Crane as a significant influence. Both poets also wrote about Crane in their poetry. Berryman wrote him one of his famous elegies in ""The Dream Songs,"" and Lowell published his ""Words for Hart Crane"" in ""Life Studies"" (1959): ""Who asks for me, the Shelley of my age, / must lay his heart out for my bed and board."" Lowell thought that Crane was the most important American poet of the generation to come of"
"American modernism. For instance, Gregory Woods writes that ""Hart Crane’s place in the Modernist pantheon is established by ""The Bridge"","" and when the literary critic Harold Bloom placed Crane in his pantheon of the best Modernist American poets of the 20th century, Bloom focused on ""The Bridge"" as Crane's most significant achievement, putting it on the same level as T. S. Eliot's ""The Waste Land"", though Bloom regarded Crane as the superior poet, as evidenced in this section from his introduction to his complete poems: ""But after a lifetime of disliking Eliot's literary and ""cultural"" criticism, I have to yield"
"quality, containing some of Crane’s best writing and some of his worst."" Then Kirsch goes on to call parts of the ""Atlantis"" section of the poem ""exhilarating"" while he criticizes the ""Indiana"" section for being ""rankly sentimental."" From a more positive critical perspective, ""The Bridge"" was recently singled out by the Academy of American Poets as one of the 20th century's ""Groundbreaking Books"". The organization writes, ""Physically removed from the city [since he began the piece while living in the Caribbean], Crane relied on his memory and imagination to render the numerous awesome and grotesque nuances of New York, evident"
"publish MacLeish's long poem ""Einstein"" in a deluxe edition, and paid MacLeish US$200 for his work. They printed 150 copies which were quickly sold. In February 1929, Hart Crane arrived in Paris. He had received $2,000 from Arts patron Otto H. Kahn in 1928 to begin work on what became a book-length poem, ""The Bridge"", but was frustrated at his lack of progress. He wore out his welcome at the home of his lover, Emil Opffer, and Crane left for Paris in early 1929. After he got to Paris, Harry offered him the use of the Crosby's country retreat, Le"
"assessing their greatness, particularly precise diction that subordinates emotion to conceptual content and rational structure. In the concluding ""Bridge"" essay, also found in ""The Anatomy of Nonsense"", Winters examines the literary and psychological dangers facing poets who push Romantic ideas to what Winters believed to be their logical limits, one of whom was, in his judgment, Hart Crane. (""The Bridge"" referred to is a famous poem by Hart Crane, with whom Winters briefly corresponded about poetry shortly before Crane's death in 1932.) The essay considers Crane as a disciple of Walt Whitman, whose romantic concepts of life and literature Winters"
"The Bridge (novel) The Bridge is a novel by Scottish author Iain Banks. It was published in 1986. The book switches between three protagonists, John Orr, Alex, and the Barbarian. It is an unconventional love story. ""The road cleared the cutting through the hills. He could see South Queensferry, the marina at Port Edgar, the VAT 69 sign of the distillery there, the lights of Hewlett-Packard’s factory; and the rail bridge, dark in the evening’s last sky-reflected light. Behind it, more lights; the Hound Point oil terminal they’d had a sub-contract on, and, further away, the lights of Leith. The"
"bridge itself, the Brooklyn Bridge that is the central object of the poem, was strongly identified in Crane’s own mind with [Crane's lover] Emil Opffer, to whom Voyages was dedicated. The appearance of the bridge secretly encrypts a highly personal memory and a specific presence in the text. Crane’s ""epic of America"" gets underway as a personal quest, as a poem divided against itself, in devotion to an urban setting that encourages social diversity, with secret inscriptions that retain their meanings to which only a privileged few are accessible. ""Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge"" is the short lyrical ode to the"
"Crane published the epic poem ""The Bridge"", using the Brooklyn Bridge as central symbol and poetic starting point. The novels of Henry Miller include reflections on several of the ethnic German and Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn during the 1890s and early 20th century; his novels ""Tropic of Capricorn"" and ""The Rosy Crucifixion"" include long tracts describing his childhood and young adulthood spent in the borough. Betty Smith's 1943 book ""A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,"" and the 1945 film based on it, are among the best-known early works about life in Brooklyn. The ""tree"" in the title is the ""Tree of"
"of Walt Whitman. For American poetry (and by extension his own work) to progress, Williams argued, it needed to move away from foreign traditions and classic forms and essentially find its own way. Hart Crane, with whom Williams was in contact, had felt similarly about ""The Waste Land"". However, Williams dismissed Crane's reaction to ""The Waste Land"", his long poem ""The Bridge"", as ""a direct step backward to the bad poetry of any age but especially to that triumphant regression [French symbolism] which followed Whitman and imitates...the Frenchman [Mallarmé] and came to a head in T.S. Eliot excellently."" Williams also"
"In a slightly more mixed review, ""Metaphor in Contemporary Poetry,"" Cudworth Flint wrote, ""This poem seems to me indubitably the work of a man of genius, and it contains passages of compact imagination and compelling rhythms. But its central intention, to give to America a myth embodying a creed which may sustain us somewhat as Christianity has done in the past, the poem fails."" Critical consensus on ""The Bridge"" (and on Crane's status in the Modernist canon more broadly) still remains deeply divided. Some critics believe that ""The Bridge"" was Crane's crowning achievement, and that it is a masterpiece of"
"The Octette Bridge Club The Octette Bridge Club is a play by P.J. Barry. Set in Providence, Rhode Island, it focuses on eight sisters of Irish descent who meet on alternate Friday evenings to play bridge and gossip. The first act, which opens with the women posing for a photograph for the Sunday rotogravure section of the local newspaper, takes place in October 1934, and the second act is set just prior to Halloween ten years later. Ann Conroy, married to a man who drinks too much, is a no-nonsense schoolteacher who hosts the bridge nights. Martha McDermitt, the widowed"
"The Bridge (1992 film) The Bridge is a 1992 independent film based on the novel by Maggie Hemingway. Directed by Sydney Macartney, it stars Saskia Reeves, David O'Hara, Joss Ackland, Rosemary Harris, Anthony Higgins, and Geraldine James. It was released in 1992. In the hot summer of 1887, life seems idyllic when Isobel Hetherington and her three young daughters moved into their seaside residence. But when Phillip Wilson Steer arrives for his annual painting visit, a chain of events set off to change their lives forever. Overcome by his first sight of Isobel, Steer immediately decides to capture her on"
"Life of Hart Crane"". Despite being a student film, ""The Broken Tower"" was shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2011 and received DVD distribution in 2012 by Focus World Films. Crane appears as a character in Samuel R. Delany's novella """" and ""The Illuminatus! Trilogy"" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious"
"poetry, Crane's suicide inspired several works of art by noted artist Jasper Johns, including ""Periscope,"" ""Land's End,"" and ""Diver,"" the ""Symphony for Three Orchestras"" by Elliott Carter (inspired by the ""Bridge"") and the painting by Marsden Hartley ""Eight Bells' Folly, Memorial for Hart Crane."" Crane is the subject of ""The Broken Tower"", a 2011 American student film by the actor James Franco who wrote, directed, and starred in the film which was the Master thesis project for his MFA in filmmaking at New York University. He loosely based his script on Paul Mariani's 1999 nonfiction book ""The Broken Tower: A"
"Brooklyn Bridge is one of the city's most recognized architectural structures, depicted by artists such as Hart Crane and Georgia O'Keeffe. The Brooklyn Bridge's main span is , and was the longest in the world when it was completed. The Williamsburg Bridge and Manhattan Bridge are the two others in the trio of architecturally notable East River crossings. The Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, which links Manhattan and Queens, is an important piece of cantilever bridge design. The borough of Staten Island is connected to Brooklyn through the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The George Washington Bridge, spanning the Hudson River between New York"
"more and more absurd. The very idea of a bridge is an act of faith. The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exists any real links between that past and a future destiny worthy of it. If only America were half as worthy today to be spoken of as Whitman spoke of it fifty years ago, there might be something for me to say."" As the poem began to take shape and showed promise, Crane wrote,"
"splashes that at times deafen and confuse in ""The Red Badge"", those images that astonish rather than enlighten, are disciplined and controlled."" The story remains popular with critics; Thomas Kent referred to ""The Open Boat"" as Crane's ""magnum opus"", while Crane biographer Stanley Wertheim called it ""Crane's finest short story and one of the masterworks of late nineteenth-century American literature"". The Open Boat ""The Open Boat"" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1897, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling"
"Harry Crosby paid Crane's fine and advanced him money for the passage back to the United States where he finally finished ""The Bridge"". The work received poor reviews, and Crane's sense of his own failure became crushing. Crane visited Mexico in 1931–32 on a Guggenheim Fellowship and his drinking continued as he suffered from bouts of alternating depression and elation. When Peggy Cowley, wife of his friend Malcolm Cowley, agreed to a divorce, she joined Crane. As far as is known, she was his only heterosexual partner. ""The Broken Tower,"" one of his last published poems, emerged from that affair."
"print (in ""The New Republic"") after Crane's famous suicide by water (compare his great homosexual love-cycle ""Voyages""). The Broken Tower The last new poem meant to be published in Hart Crane's life, ""The Broken Tower"" (1932) has been widely acknowledged as one of the best lyrics of Crane's last years, if not his career. In keeping with the varieties and difficulties of Crane criticism, the poem has been interpreted widely—as death ode, life ode, process poem, visionary poem, poem on failed vision—but its biographical impetus out of Crane's first heterosexual affair (with Peggy Cowley, estranged wife of Malcolm Cowley) is"
"Einstein's Bridge (novel) Einstein's Bridge is a hard science fiction novel by physicist and science fiction writer John G. Cramer. The novel was first published in June 1997 in hardcover and trade paperback formats by Avon Books. The company followed up by publishing a mass-market paperback version in 1998. The novel is currently out of print but is available for order through selected booksellers. The plot revolves around three central human characters, George Griffin, Roger Coulton, and Alice Lang. Set from 1987 to 2004, the book details the efforts of physicists George and Roger as they work to bring the"
"Cambridge and Durham in 1850. These drawings were much admired by masters like George Cruikshank and John Leech. Hippolyte Taine in his ""Notes sur l'Angleterre"" (1872) drew on Bradley's 'Oxford' book for his description of English university life. It seems not to be widely known that no fewer than nine chapters of Part III are devoted to Verdant Green's visit to Northumberland. On the way he passes through Darlington. 'After mentioning Durham Cathedral and Lord Durham's monument on Penshaw Hill, Verdant Green and his party then pass over Robert Stephenson's (recently completed) High Level Bridge at Newcastle. The location of"
"The Broken Tower The last new poem meant to be published in Hart Crane's life, ""The Broken Tower"" (1932) has been widely acknowledged as one of the best lyrics of Crane's last years, if not his career. In keeping with the varieties and difficulties of Crane criticism, the poem has been interpreted widely—as death ode, life ode, process poem, visionary poem, poem on failed vision—but its biographical impetus out of Crane's first heterosexual affair (with Peggy Cowley, estranged wife of Malcolm Cowley) is generally undisputed. Written early in the year, the poem was rejected by ""Poetry"", and only appeared in"
"of the bridge without a harness. The first episode of the UK television series ""Britain's Greatest Bridges"" featured the Forth Bridge and was aired on Spike UK on 12 January 2017. The location of the Forth Bridge has seen it featured in other cultural forms. In the build up to the Millennium celebrations a countdown clock sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland was attached to the top of the Bridge in 1998. Iain Banks wrote the novel ""The Bridge"", which is mainly set on a fictionalised version of the bridge, which links ""The City"" (Edinburgh) and ""The Kingdom"" (Fife)."
"that it is the only bridge in Britain to have a church at both ends: the ancient St. Mary's Church, Putney is located in Putney, on the south bank, and All Saints' Church, Fulham, is on the north bank. Due to the proximity of All Saints to Fulham Palace, the ancient residence of the Bishop of London, several Bishops of London were buried at All Saints. The church was featured in the film ""The Omen"", in a scene which begins in Bishop's Park, and ends with a bizarre accident where a priest (played by Patrick Troughton) is impaled by a"
"Hanging Bridge Hanging Bridge is a medieval bridge spanning the Hanging Ditch, which connected the rivers Irk and Irwell in Manchester, England. The first reference to the bridge was in 1343, when it was called Hengand Brigge, but the present structure was built in 1421, replacing an earlier bridge. Material taken from Manchester's Roman fort may have been used in its construction. It has been speculated that the Hanging Ditch may be of Roman origin, part of a defensive circuit between the rivers Irk and Irwell. The name may derive from the Old English ""hen"", meaning wild birds, and the"