# White buildings

Author: Crane, Hart, 1899-1932; Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: American poetry -- 20th century

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77837

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=White+buildings+Crane&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 employs symbols from traditional literature, the intention is personally symbolic; it is never falsely pretentious with the common baggage of poetical speech, the properties coveted by the vul...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-buildings-77837/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-buildings-77837/chapters/2/index.md)