Hart Crane S Mystical Quest And Other Essays

Including essays by some of this century's most prestigious literary critics -- Allen Tate, Yvor Winters, William Carlos Williams, R. P. Blackmur, R. W. B. Lewis, and Harold Bloom, among others -- this collection provides a thorough and telling introduction to Crane and his works, especially his collections of lyrical poetry, The Bridge and White Buildings. The volume is edited by Allen Trachtenberg, who has written extensively on Crane and his Whitman-like relationship to American culture.

"Canonized for being insufficiently American although he took America as his subject, chastised for obscurity by readers who would not allow or would not read homosexual meanings, Crane embodies many understandings of America, and of the predicament of the gay writer."—Voice Literary Supplement "A brilliant critical model for understanding how textuality and sexuality can produce pervasive effects on each other in the writing of a figure like Crane."—Michael Moon, Duke University

On the works of Syed Amanuddin, b. 1934, Indic English writer.