no way of knowing how matters would turn out with the estate; and the
expense of coming home now certainly seems justified in view of the
possibility of economizing later on. There are many things highly
important for us to discuss together, and besides that I am looking
forward to seeing you and the rest of our friends and relatives again. I
am bringing back a lot of very interesting things, some very beautiful,
that you’ll enjoy seeing, I’m sure.
A case of books had to be sent collect (Wells Fargo) direct to the
factory. Please be on the watch for it. The other things are all in a
large hamper which will go with me on the boat and will be expressed to
the factory later on from New York. I’ll be in New York a couple of days
as I simply must see some of my old friends after so long a time. I’ll
telephone you on the first night of my arrival around 10 o’clock when
rates are reduced.
Please give my love to poor little Dorothy. I haven’t had a moment to
write to anyone lately or I should have written her long ago. Had to
spend all day yesterday running around trying to get the telegraphed
money cashed. Wasn’t your fault, nor mine. Peggy nearly went crazy with
hers, sent from her former husband, too. The telegraph office paid us
off in six hundred and some odd “Tostons” (about like getting it all in
dimes) and neither the Ward Line office nor the official Banco de Mexico
would accept them.... It seems there’s a law against paying out any such
currency beyond a certain small amount. But how should we know--and
besides what does a government agency like the telegraph here mean by
paying you in currency which the government itself, through its own
official bank, turns around and refuses! We finally had to arrange a
special interview with the president of the bank himself. I was all
ready to complain to the embassy. So you see how slow things move here
and what incessant obstacles one has to fight for the simplest sort of
transactions. It certainly has about made a nervous wreck of me. But
I’ll rest up on the boat.
405: TO MRS. T. W. SIMPSON
(Postcard)
[_Havana, Cuba_] [_April 26, 1932_]
Off here for a few hours on my way north. Will write you soon. Am going
back to Cleveland to help in the business crisis. Permanent address--Box
604, Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS
(_Numbers are those of the letters_)
----: 55, 103, 105, 121, 136, 245, 250, 267, 381, 386
---- and ----: 242, 273, 292, 300
Anderson, Sherwood: 54, 85
Baird, Peggy: 376, 377, 383, 385, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392
Baird, Peggy and Malcolm Cowley: 295
Brown, Slater: 216, 294, 298, 303, 323, 373
Bubb, Charles C.: 15
_Contempo_: 403
Cowley, Malcolm: 225, 237, 310, 311, 319, 328, 362, 371, 384, 397
Cowley, Malcolm and Peggy Baird: 255
Crosby, Caresse: 329, 331, 332, 333, 335, 396
Crosby, Harry and Caresse: 330
Dietz, Lorna: 334, 354, 368
Father (Clarence A. Crane): 3, 4, 8, 9, 173, 219, 221, 283, 286, 288,
291, 306, 307
Frank, Waldo: 119, 131, 137, 140, 182, 188, 211, 212, 213, 217, 228,
236, 244, 247, 248, 249, 253, 254, 257, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265,
272, 296, 299, 304, 315, 320, 327, 337, 355, 363
Grandmother (Elizabeth B. Hart): 1, 2, 165, 209, 226, 230
Grunberg, Solomon: 346, 352, 375, 387, 395, 399, 401
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: 344
Josephson, Matthew: 40, 57
Kahn, Otto H.: 222, 235, 289
Lachaise, Gaston: 231
Lachaise, Isabel and Gaston: 171, 258
Loveman, Samuel: 290, 297, 312, 313, 316, 322, 351, 353, 358, 369, 378,
394, 398, 400
Moe, Henry Allen: 356
Mother (Grace Hart Crane): 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
23, 25, 26, 146, 151, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 162, 163, 169, 174, 175,
176, 177, 180, 181, 183, 184, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194,
197, 198, 199, 201, 202, 205, 206, 207, 208, 210, 223, 227, 229, 238,
240, 243, 246, 251, 256, 268, 271, 278, 284
Munson, Gorham B,: 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 41, 42, 43,
44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64,
65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,
86, 88, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111,
112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120, 122, 124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 132,
135, 138, 161, 167, 168, 172, 185, 195, 196, 233, 234, 239, 302
Porter, Katherine Anne: 359, 360, 361, 366
Rickword, Edgell: 270
Rodman, Selden: 341, 347, 365
Rosenfeld, Paul: 338
Rychtarik, Charlotte: 141, 143, 149, 156, 166, 170, 264, 309, 336
Rychtarik, Charlotte and Richard: 139, 145, 152, 179, 200, 203, 214,
215, 220, 224, 232, 241, 293, 308, 321, 357, 374
Rychtarik, Richard: 147
Schneider, Isidor: 274, 301, 325, 34 350
Schneider, Isidor and Helen: 305
Seltzer, Thomas: 204
Simpson, Mrs. T. W.: 266, 287, 405
Sommer, William: 144, 218
Stein, Gertrude: 318, 324
Stella, Joseph: 317
Stepmother (Bessie M. Hise): 379, 382, 393, 404
Stieglitz, Alfred: 142, 148, 150, 154, 160, 164
Tate, Allen: 98, 100, 104, 130, 133, 134, 178, 269, 275, 276, 277, 279,
280, 281, 282, 326, 343, 345
Walton, Eda Lou: 340, 380
Wiegand, Charmion: 28, 74, 98, 107, 113, 127, 314
Weinstock, Herbert: 339
Winters, Yvor: 285
Wright, William: 14, 21, 22, 24, 37, 38, 78, 87, 89, 93, 123, 252, 348,
349, 367, 370
Zabel, Morton Dauwen: 364, 372, 402
INDEX
(Asterisks denote works of Hart Crane)
“Abbott, Dorian” (J. B. Wheelwright), 125
_Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years_ (Sandburg), 272
_Aeneid, The_ (Virgil), 309
Aeschylus, 235
Aesop, 58
_Aesthete, 1925_, 196
*“Again” (“The Wine Menagerie”), 255
Aiken, Conrad, 69, 294 f.
Akron, Ohio, 23 ff.
Alden, Priscilla, 306
Aldington, Richard, 12, 341
_All God’s Chillun Got Wings_ (O’Neill), 177
Alleghany College, xi
_American, The_ (James), 41
_American Caravan, The_, 291
*“America’s Plutonic Ecstasies,” 120, 126
_Anarchism Is Not Enough_ (Riding), 321
Anderson, Margaret, 10, 30, 45 ff., 56-57, 61, 64, 70, 174
Anderson, Sherwood, 23, 26 ff., 34 ff., 37-38, 40, 47, 53, 56, 58 f.,
62, 65-66, 69, 73, 75, 83 ff., 95 ff., 103, 187, 208, 287, 364
_Anthology of Magazine Verse_ (ed. Braithwaite), 104
Annunzio, d’, Gabriele, 41
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 84 f.
Apuleius, 36
Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 313
Aragon, Louis, 84
Aristotle, 139, 311
_Atlantic Monthly_, 75
*“Atlantis,” 268, 270
_Atlantis in America_ (Lewis Spence), 255
*“At Melville’s Tomb,” 218, 259
“Ave Maria,” 242, 268, 291 ff., 305 f.
*“Bacardi Spreads the Eagle’s Wings,” 315, 410
Bach, J. S., 408
_Back to Methuselah_ (Shaw), 66, 104
Baird, Peggy, 232, 330, 376, 383, 393-394, 396, 403 f., 406 f., 409, 412
Barnes, Djuna, 28
Barney, Alice, 325
Barney, Nathalie Clifford, 325
Barrie, Sir James, 25
Barrymore, John, 38
_Bartholomew Fair_ (Jonson), 71
Bartók, Béla, 177
Baudelaire, Charles, 56, 58, 67, 88, 91, 115, 213, 358, 371
Bax, Arnold, 177
Beach, Rex, 73
Beals, Carleton, 404
Beardsley, Aubrey, 105
Beethoven, van, Ludwig, 109, 316
Benét, William Rose, 243, 324
Berners, Lord, 177
_Better Sort, The_ (James), 41
Biggers, Earl Derr, 5-6
Binet, Jean, 66
*“Black Tambourine,” 54, 58, 60, 63, 70, 72, 77
Blair, Mary, 195
Blake, William, 39, 88, 90, 100, 115, 132, 138, 176, 260, 288, 291,
294, 301, 322, 324, 364
Bloch, Ernest, 66, 78, 82, 129, 177
_Blue Juniata_ (Cowley), 330-331, 343
Blume, Peter, 349
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 9, 75, 295
Boni, Albert and Charles, 254
Boni and Liveright, 14, 136
Boone, Daniel, 307
*“Bottom of the Sea Is Cruel, The” (“Voyages I”), 69, 96, 99
Boyd, Ernest, 75, 243, 394
Boyle, Kay, 321, 335, 341, 406
Bradley, F. H., 322
Brahms, Johannes, 316
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 104
Brancusi, Constantin, 70
Braque, Georges, 177
Brenner, Anita, 399, 404
Breughel, 314
*_Bridge, The_, vii, ix f., xviii, 118, 119-120, 123, 124-125, 127 f.,
135 ff., 145, 147, 153, 178, 184, 191 f., 201, 222-223, 231-233, 236,
240-242, 248 ff., 254 f., 259, 261 f., 265, 267 f., 268-269, 269-270,
271 f., 273, 274-275, 276 ff., 280, 285, 293, 296 f., 302 f., 304-308,
309 f., 318, 322, 325, 334 ff., 338 f., 342, 343-349, 350 ff., 364,
366, 374
*“Bridge of Estador, The,” 55, 55n., 182
Brody, Alter, 40
*“Broken Tower, The,” viii, x, 396, 401, 404, 406, 410
Brookhaven, Long Island, 20 f.
Brooklyn Bridge, ix f., 181, 183, 232, 240, 261, 270, 283, 307, 334, 363
*“Brooklyn Bridge, To,” 267, 347
Brooklyn Heights, 181 ff.
Brooks, Charles S., 13, 56
Brooks, Mrs. Charles S., 13
Brooks, Van Wyck, 28, 47, 178, 195, 291
_Broom_, 76, 95, 101, 103 f., 106, 113, 117 ff., 123, 154 f., 161 f.,
185
_Brothers Karamazov, The_ (Dostoievsky), 49 f.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 67
Brown, John, 61 f., 241
Brown, (William) Slater, vi, 85, 133 ff., 155 ff., 160 ff., 167, 197,
205 f., 208 f., 214, 217, 226, 244, 268, 290, 293, 303, 321, 355, 379,
383
_Bruno’s Weekly_, xvii
Bullus, Leonard, 292
Burchfield, Charles, 56
Burke, Kenneth, 36, 63, 70, 99, 103-104, 106, 108, 135, 155, 158, 160,
162, 166, 185, 218, 388
Burleson, Albert S. (_Postmaster General_), 29, 47
Butler, Samuel, 98-99
Bynner, Witter, 37, 394
Byron, Lord, 67
Cabell, James Branch, 105, 108
_Cabinet of Dr. Caligari_, 65
_Calendar, The_, 259, 281
Calhoun, Alice, 14-15, 311
California, 311 ff.
Calles, Plutarco, 293, 319
Camino, Leon Felipe, 372 f.
Campbell, Roy, 342
Canby, Henry Seidel, 345
Candee, Harry, 29-30, 32, 43, 141
Cannan, Gilbert, 85
*“Cape Hatteras,” 308, 344 ff.
Casanova, 372-373
Casella, Alfredo, 177
Castaneda, Dr. Maximiliano, 368
Catel, Jean, 194 f.
Catullus, 29, 33
Cavalcanti, Guido, 67
Cazes, Hazel, 369
Cervantes Saavedra, de, Miguel, 17
Cezanne, Paul, 86, 342
Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 359 ff.
Chaplin, Charlie, 65 f., 68 f., 85, 149-150, 170, 311, 326
*“Chaplinesque,” 65 f., 68 ff., 74, 85, 195, 313
Chapman, George--_Homer_, 287
_Chartreuse de Parme, La_ (Stendhal), 39, 64
Chase, William Merritt, 7
Chatterton, Thomas, 67
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 17, 78, 299
Chekhov, Anton, 39
Chirico, de, Giorgio, 87, 251
Chopin, Frédéric, 59
Christian Science, xvii, 3, 12, 15-16, 33-34, 161, 180, 280
_City Block_ (Frank), 124, 128, 130, 132-133
Clarke, Donald, 292
Cleveland, Ohio, xvii, 30 ff., 45 ff.
Cleveland _Plain Dealer_, 12
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 30
Cocteau, Jean, 72, 86
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 67, 215, 314, 343, 353
*_Collected Poems of Hart Crane, The_, v
Collioure, France, 339 ff.
Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, 181 ff.
Columbia University, 19-20, 21
Columbus, Christopher, 232, 234, 240 f., 268, 305
Colum, Mary, 6 f.
Colum, Padraic, 6 f., 14, 51, 63, 95, 149
_Commedia_ (Dante), 356
Comstock, Anthony, 30
Conrad, Joseph, 41, 187
_Conquistador_ (MacLeish), 375, 411
_Contact_, 51, 53
_Contempo_, 394
Coolidge, Calvin, 365
Copeau, Jacques, 85, 178
Copland, Aaron, 195
*Cortez-Montezuma epic, 276, 390, 405
Coué, Emile, 109
_Counterfeiters, The_ (Gide), 316, 322
Cowley, Malcolm, vi, 42, 75, 84 f., 97, 113, 135, 155, 160-161, 162,
166, 182, 184, 231 n., 244, 252, 256, 294, 321, 325, 327, 340, 384,
388, 393, 400
Craig, Gordon, 66-67
Crane, Bessie (aunt), 3
Crane, Bessie M. (stepmother, II), _see_ Hise, Bessie M.
Crane, Clarence Arthur (father), x-xii, xvii f., 3, 9, 18, 20-21,
22 f., 27 f., 32 f., 35, 41, 45, 48, 50-51, 55, 57, 82, 108, 167
f., 173-174, 175, 179 ff., 186, 207 f., 214, 219 n., 226, 284, 292,
296-297, 337 f., 360, 363 ff., 376-377, 378 f., 402-403, 404
Crane, Frances (stepmother, I), 173, 283-284
Crane, Grace Hart (mother), vi, x, xvii, 3, 7 f., 19, 24, 32, 33-34,
36, 48 f., 57, 82, 107-108, 110, 134, 140-141,
143, 153 f., 162, 169, 212, 214, 219, 226-227, 231, 234 f., 250, 252,
256, 276, 278, 303-304, 316, 320-321, 327, 337-338
Crevel, René, 341
_Crime and Punishment_ (Dostoievsky), 46
_Criterion, The_, 218, 308
_Critique of Humanism, The_ (ed. C. H. Grattan), 352, 354
_Crome Yellow_ (A. Huxley), 82
Crosby, Caresse, xviii, 340, 342, 348
Crosby, Harry, xviii, 335 f., 338-339, 340, 342, 344, 346, 348, 405
*“C 33,” xvii
Cummings, Anne, 310-311, 324
Cummings, E. E., 85, 96, 108, 120, 133, 167, 182, 213, 251, 307,
310-311, 321, 324, 349, 354 f., 375
Curtis, Charles, 188, 198, 224, 226, 243, 252, 284
*“Cutty Sark,” 268, 283, 294, 307, 346
Dadaism, 52, 70, 72
Daly, James, 123
Damon, S. Foster, 100
*“Dance, The,” 288-289, 292, 307
Dante Alighieri, ix, 67
_Dark Mother, The_ (Frank), 47
Dasburg, Andrew, 408
Davenport, Russell, 366
Davidson, Donald, 294
Davies, Sir John, 213
Debussy, Claude, 78, 108
_Decline of the West, The_ (Spengler), 267
Deming, Zell Hart (aunt), 14, 188, 226
_Democratic Vistas_ (Whitman), 354
Derain, Andre, 87, 90
_Destinations_ (Munson), 178, 323-324
Deutsch, Babette, 63
_Dial, The_, 27, 32, 35 f., 36, 40, 42 f., 47, 54, 55 f., 65, 70, 73,
75, 92, 94, 97, 101, 103, 115, 117 f., 124, 133, 135, 136-137, 154,
160, 162, 178, 180, 191, 218, 220, 289, 292
Dickinson, Emily, 213, 324
Dietz, Howard, 325
Dietz, Lorna, 370
D’Indy, Vincent, 129
Dio Cassius, 32
Dionysios, 91
_Dr. Transit_ (Schneider), 231, 287
Doherty, Mary, 393
Don Quixote, 261
_Don Quixote_ (Cervantes), 263
Donne, John, 25, 66 ff., 71, 73, 77, 86, 88, 176, 213, 301
Dos Passos, John, 213, 324, 366
Dostoievsky, Feodor, 46 f., 50, 52-53
_Double Dealer, The_, 58 f., 61 f., 66, 74, 87 f., 104, 115, 129
Douglas, Lord Alfred, 43
Drayton, Michael, 78, 86, 286
Dreiser, Theodore, 27, 69, 324
Duchamp, Marcel, 52, 177
_Duchess of Malfi, The_ (Webster), 90
Duncan, Isadora, 108 f., 322
Durieux, Caroline and Pierre, 404
Eames, Claire, 174
East High School, Cleveland, xvii, 4, 359
Eastman, Max, 388
_Egoist, The_, 91
Einstein, Albert, 311
El Greco, 114, 267, 333
_El Universal_, 373
Eliot, T. S., 24, 26, 28, 34, 36, 44, 66, 86, 88, 90, 102, 104 f.,
114-115, 117 f., 121, 123, 261, 308, 311, 313, 323, 345, 351, 355 f.,
359, 372
Ely, 3, 14
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 73
*“Emily Dickinson, To,” 277
_Enormous Room, The_ (Cummings), 96 f., 133
Enters, Angna, 349
*“Episode of Hands,” 37, 38-39, 40
Epstein, Jacob, 46, 95
_Erik Dorn_ (Hecht), 66, 68 ff., 73
Estrada, Genaro, 372
Evans, Walker, 347
_Excelsior_, 373
_Faust_ (Goethe), 94
*“Faustus and Helen, For the Marriage of,” 87, 89, 92-93, 96, 98,
100-101, 102 f., 113 ff., 120-121, 123-124, 125, 127 ff., 131, 135-136,
140, 154, 178, 181, 184, 195, 301
Fawcett, James Waldo, 24-25, 27
Fernandez, Ramon, 319, 322 f.
Field, Eugene, 29
Fielding, Henry, 300
Fisher, William Murrell, 107, 161 ff., 167
Fitts, Norman, 119 f., 126
Fitzgerald, Eleanor, 224, 303, 311, 354
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 78
_Five Seasons, The_ (Phelps Putnam), 384, 393, 399
Flaubert, Gustave, 75
Fletcher, Herbert, 25-26, 63
Fletcher, John Gould, 63, 295
_Fleurs du Mal, Les_ (Baudelaire), 33
Florida land boom, 209-210
_Flowering Judas_ (Porter), 373
Flynn, Bina, 216 f., 248, 252
Ford, Ford Madox, 285, 341
_Fortune_, 357 ff.
_42nd Parallel_ (Dos Passos), 366
Frank, Thomas, 263
Frank, Waldo, vii, 26-27, 28, 34-35, 95 f., 98-99, 104, 107 f., 113,
118 f., 124, 128 ff., 132-133, 136 f., 140 f., 145, 149 f., 154 f.,
162, 170, 178, 186 f., 193, 195 f., 199 f., 203, 206, 208, 218-219, 223
ff., 236, 251 f., 255 f., 269 f., 278, 284, 291, 312, 322 ff., 370, 400
Freeman, G. W., 204, 211
_Freeman, The_, 40, 58-59, 125
Freud, Sigmund, 268
Freytag-Loringhoven, von, Baroness Elsa, 23, 30, 52, 56, 62
_From Ritual to Romance_ (Jessie L. Weston), 314
Friedman, Dr. Paul, viii
Frost, Robert, 17, 27
_Fugitive, The_, 88, 123, 155, 161
_Fyodor Dostoyevsky_ (J. Middleton Murry), 53
Gale, Zona, 66
Garden, Mary, 65
*“Garden Abstract,” 31, 37, 39 f., 51-52
_Gargoyle_, 70, 79-80
Garman, Douglas, 281
Garrettsville, Ohio, xvii
Gauguin, Paul, 29, 36, 55, 385
Gide, André, 66, 85, 294, 317, 336
Gilmore, Louis, 290
Goethe, 240
Gogh, van, Vincent, 55
Gogol, Nikolai, 34
Gold, Michael, 357
_Golden Ass, The_ (Apuleius), 44
Goldman, Emma, 341
Gordon (Tate), Caroline, 225 f., 245-247, 283, 294, 341 ff.
Gorman, Herbert, 295
Gourmont, de, Rémy, 66, 73, 78 f., 123 _Marginalia_ on Poe and
Baudelaire, 64
Goya, Francisco, 114
_Graechische Vasenmalerei_ (Ernst Buschor), 116
Grand Cayman, West Indies, 257-258, 264-266, 293
_Grandmothers, The_ (Wescott), 316
Graves, Robert, 333
Gregory, Alyse, 136, 160
Green, Sonia, 187
Greenberg, Samuel B., 162-163
Grey, Zane, 73
Gris, Juan, 341
Grosz, George, 87
Grunberg, Solomon, 331
_Guardian, The_, 215, 218
Guest, Edgar A., 73
Guggenheim Fellowship, xviii, 358, 365, 367, 374
Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch, 174, 298
Habicht, Charmion. _See_ Wiegand, Charmion
Habicht, Hermann, 22, 131, 180
Hackett, Francis, 28
Hale, William Harlan, 357, 375
_Hamlet of A. MacLeish, The_, 343
Hampden, Walter, 44-45
_Harbor, The_ (Ernest Poole), 256
*“Harbor Dawn, The,” 283, 306
Harcourt, Brace, 155, 213
Hardy, Thomas, 289, 300, 357
_Harkness Hoot, The_, 356-357
Harris, Charles, 121
Harris, Frank, 50
Hart, Clinton (grandfather), 249
_Hart Crane_ (Philip Horton), v, 240 n.
Hart, Elizabeth Belden (grandmother), xvii f., 10, 14, 23 f., 34, 140,
162 ff., 188, 214, 219, 224 f., 227, 233, 243, 270, 303, 321, 328, 337
Harte, Bret, 23
Hartley, Marsden, 27, 30, 75, 342, 404, 408
Havana, Cuba, 10, 251, 275, 412
Hays, Arthur Garfield, 330
Heap, Jane, 46 f., 61, 64, 100, 224
Hecht, 69 f., 104
Heine, Heinrich, 59, 71, 117
_Heliogabalus_ (Mencken & Nathan), 32
Helton, Roy, 373
Hemingway, Ernest, 287 f., 294
Hertha, 305
_Hints to Pilgrims_ (Charles S. Brooks), 56
Hise, Bessie M. (stepmother, II), 364, 377, 378 f., 410
_History of American Poetry, A_ (Gregory and Zaturenska), v
_History of Ferdinand and Isabella_ (W. H. Prescott), 235
Hoboken, New Jersey, 286
Hofmann, Josef, 177
Hollywood, California, 324-325
Homer, 120
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 317, 319, 340, 359
Hoppé, E. O., 30
_Hound & Horn_, The, 352
Howells, William Dean, 47
Huebsch, B. W., 85, 96-97, 115, 171 f., 175
*“Hurricane, The,” 316, 363
Huxley, Aldous, 72, 90
Huysmans, Joris Karl, 69, 78
Ibsen, Henrik, 9
_Idols Behind Altars_ (Brenner), 372
_Imperial Purple_ (Saltus), 32, 49
_Iliad, The_ (Homer), 81
_In Our Time_ (Hemingway), 219
_In the American Grain_ (Williams), 277-278
*“Indiana,” 307, 345, 357-358
_Instigations_ (Pound), 51
*“Interludium,” 166
_International Studio_, 30
Isle of Pines, Cuba, vii, xvii f., 10, 151 ff., 210, 234, 248-249, 251
ff., 293
Jacobs, S. A., 201, 202-203, 205
James, Henry, 17, 41, 90, 106
Jammes, Francis, 104
Jenkins, Sue, 135, 174, 182, 197, 205, 209, 217, 262, 384
Jimenez, Juan Ramon, 187, 212
_John Brown_ (Oswald Garrison Villard), 61
Jolas, Eugene, 293 f., 334, 336, 338, 341
Jolson, Al, 32, 290
Jones, Robert Edmond, 166, 177
Jonson, Ben, 71, 78, 88, 129
Jordan, Virgil, 53
Josephson, Hannah, 63, 330
Josephson, Matthew, 23 f., 26 f., 35, 37, 48, 63, 64-65, 71 f., 74-75,
78-79, 84 f., 87, 95-96, 97, 100 ff., 104, 105-106, 113 f., 118 ff.,
135, 162, 166, 285, 384
_Journal of First Voyage to America_ (Columbus), 234 f.
Joyce, James, 47, 58, 61, 66, 69, 94 f., 99, 104 f., 108, 288
_Judge, The_ (Rebecca West), 102
_Jurgen_ (Cabell), 73, 366
Kahn, Otto H., xviii, 211, 225, 227, 232 f., 247 f., 250, 254, 259, 262
ff., 267, 274, 286, 310, 321, 351
Kafka, Franz, viii
Keats, John, 67, 353
_Kid, The_ (Charlie Chaplin), 65, 68 f.
*“Kidd’s Cove” (“O Carib Isle”), 259
King, Clinton, 394, 399 ff.
Kirkham, Hall, 292
Kling, Joseph, 25, 31-32
Knopf, Alfred A., 26, 125
Kreymborg, Alfred, 194 f., 244, 291
Kunitz, Stanley J., 353
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 107
Lachaise, Gaston, 135, 149, 159, 170, 205, 252, 258
Lachaise, Isabel, 159, 205, 252, 258
*“Lachrymae Christi,” 183
_Ladies Home Journal_, 75
Laforgue, Jules, 45, 67, 71, 85 f., 88, 90, 104, 123, 163, 261, 282
Landor, Walter Savage, 39, 73
Larbaud, Valery, 95, 294, 336
Lasky, Jesse, 325
Laukhuff, Richard, 12, 23, 277, 280
Laurencin, Marie, 87
Lawrence, D. H., 17, 52, 63, 390, 395
_Leaves of Grass_ (Whitman), 109
LeBlanc, Georgette, 174
_Leda_ (Huxley), 44
Leffingwell, 167
Leonardo da Vinci, 300
Lescaze, William, 56, 62-63, 66-67, 70, 77, 85, 91 f., 104
_Letters of Henry James, The_, 41
Lewis (Winters), Janet, 313
Lewis, Sinclair, 66
Lewis, Wyndham, 55, 196, 313, 319, 322 f.
_Liberator, The_, 31, 91
Light, James, 155, 166, 174, 213-214, 215, 224, 262, 267
Light, Sue. _See_ Jenkins, Sue
_Limbo_ (Huxley), 41
Lincoln, Abraham, 27
Lindsay, Vachel, 7, 295
Li Po, 67
_Literary Digest_, 68
_Little Mexico_ (Spratling), 388, 404
_Little Review, The_, 10, 12, 16-17, 18, 20-21, 23 f., 27 f., 30,
45-46, 47, 51, 56, 61, 64, 68, 70, 75, 117, 126, 191
Liveright, Horace, 125, 128, 171, 206, 218, 220, 254, 259, 262-263,
281, 292, 296, 340
_Lives of the Caesars_ (Suetonius), 49
*“Locations des Pierrots,” 87
Loeb, Harold, 113
London, 332-333, 338, 341
London _Times_, 295
Long, Haniel, 63
_Look Homeward, Angel_ (Wolfe), 375
Los Angeles, California, 314-315
Lovecraft, Howard, 187
Lovell, Wheeler, 267
Loveman, Samuel, x, 91, 100, 104, 106, 187 f., 190-191, 200, 201-202,
206, 331
_Love of Three Kings, The_ (Italo Montemezzi), 65
Lowell, Amy, 26, 89, 125
Lowenfels, Walter, 341
McAlmon, Robert, 53, 80
Macaulay Company, 291
MacCown, Eugene, 341
McFee, William, 256
Macgowan, Kenneth, 166
_Machinery_, 167
Mackenzie, Compton, 52
MacLeish, Archibald, 285, 294, 351, 357, 575
McPherson, Aimee, 314-315, 322
Macy, John, 105
Madden, N. Byron (uncle), 15, 411
Maddow, Ben, 393
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 174
_Magellan_ (A. S. Hildebrand), 235
Maillol, Aristide, 177
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 78
_Man Who Died, The_ (D. H. Lawrence), 395
*“Mango Tree, The,” 254 f., 259
Mann, Klaus, 341
_Many Marriages_ (S. Anderson), 103
_Marching Men_ (S. Anderson), 56
_Maria Chapdelaine_ (Louis Hémon), 81
Marichalar, Antonio, 313-314
Marin, John, 102, 177, 349
Marks, Harry L., 344
Marlowe, Christopher, 25, 67, 71, 86, 88, 300, 353
Marseille, France, 342 ff.
Martinique, West Indies, 310
_Masses, The_, 91
Massis, Henri, 313
Masters, Edgar Lee, 28, 295
Matisse, Henry, 87, 171
Maugham, W. Somerset, 29
Maupassant, de, Guy, 24
Maurras, Charles, 313
_Measure, The_, 64
Meleager, 100
Melville, Herman, 252, 331
Mencken, H. L., 26, 30, 32, 388 f.
_Menorah Journal, The_, 359
_Merchant of Venice, The_ (Shakespeare), 44-45
_Mercure de France_, 194
_Messages_ (Fernandez), 317, 319
_Mexican Maze_ (Beals), 380
Mexico, xviii, 368 ff.
Mexico (Stuart Chase), 380 f.
Michelangelo, 114
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 67-68
Milton, John, 67, 384
Minns, Hervey W., 30, 46, 52, 54
Mitchell, Stewart, 182, 313, 321
_Moby Dick_ (Melville), 86, 258, 260, 404-405
_Modernist, The_, 22 f., 24-25, 27
Moe, Henry Allen, 389
Monroe, Harriet, 294, 374, 410 n.
Montéllano, 373
Moody, William Vaughn, 89
_Moon and Sixpence, The_ (Maugham), 29
Moore, George, 354
Moore, Marianne, 37, 85, 194 f., 215, 218, 220, 224, 255, 259, 275, 289
f., 294, 324
Moore, Thomas, 67
Morris, William, 333
Mumford, Lewis, 195, 366
Munson, Elizabeth, vi, 126, 133, 143-144, 146 f., 155, 166, 180, 184
Munson, Gorham, vi f., ix, 85, 88, 94 f., 97, 101, 106 ff., 117, 119,
127, 130 ff., 143-144, 146 f., 153-154, 158, 171 f., 176, 178, 180,
182, 184 ff., 201, 213 f., 224, 251, 270 f., 273-274, 275, 282, 298,
300, 330, 335, 353, 384, 394
Murry, J. Middleton, 75
*“My Grandmother’s Love Letters,” 22 f., 25 f., 32, 37, 39
_My Heart and My Flesh_ (Elizabeth Madox Roberts), 314
Nagle, Edward, 135, 155 ff., 159 ff.
Nathan, George Jean, 32
_Nation, The_, 49, 58-59, 283
_Natural Philosophy of Love, The_ (de Gourmont, trans. Pound), 73, 91
Naumburg, Margaret, 150, 154, 162, 166, 336
Negri, Pola, 149
Nelson, Ernest, 75, 93
_New American Caravan, The_, 351
_New Criterion, The_, 240
_New Masses, The_, 240
New Orleans, Louisiana, 303, 326
_New Republic, The_, 28, 40, 58-59, 108, 219, 290, 292, 388, 394
New York City, xvii, 4 ff., 130 ff., 165 ff.
New York _Evening Journal_, 24
New York _Times_, 36, 100
Newton, Sir Isaac, 238
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 67, 75, 93, 99, 358
_Nigger of the Narcissus, The_ (Conrad), 41
_1919_ (John Dos Passos), 409
_1924_, 185, 191 f.
_Noa Noa_ (Paul Gauguin), 39
_Nouvelle Revue Française_, La, 78, 85
*“O Carib Isle,” 283, 293
O’Flaherty, Liam, 371
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 114, 177, 195, 349
O’Malley, Ernest, 371
O’Neill, Eugene, 155-156, 166, 170, 174, 177, 180, 184, 190, 193, 203,
208, 211-212, 214-215, 216, 218, 220 ff., 224 f., 240, 254, 258-259,
262-263, 270
Orage, A. R., 282
_Ordeal of Mark Twain, The_ (Van Wyck Brooks), 28
_Oresteia of Aeschylus, The_ (trans. G. Warr), 235
Ornstein, Leo, 271
_Others_, 7, 9
_Our America_ (Frank), 26-27, 28, 34-35, 131
_Pagan, The_, xvii, 7, 12, 23, 31
*“Paraphrase,” 195
Paris, 333 ff.
Parker, Dorothy, 322
Parrish, Maxfield, 21
_Parsifal_ (Wagner), 35
Pascal, Blaise, 48
*“Passage,” 215, 218, 259
*“Pastorale,” 64, 69, 71
Pater, Walter, 108, 117, 161
Patterson, New York, xviii, 208 ff., 224 ff., 277 ff.
_Pavannes and Divisions_ (Pound), 24
_Pelléas et Mélisande_ (Debussy), 339
*“Persuasion, A,” 58, 64
_Petits Poèmes en Prose, Les_ (Baudelaire), 274
_Petrouchka_ (Stravinsky), 200
Phibbs, Geoffrey, 340
Picabia, Francis, 64
Picasso, Pablo, 55, 87, 146, 171, 177, 336, 341
_Picture of Dorian Gray, The_ (Wilde), 38
Pindar, 129
Pinski, David, 47
_Plagued by the Nightingale_ (Boyle), 406
Plato, 17, 238
_Plato and Platonism_ (Pater), 161
_Plowshare, The_, 34
_Plumed Serpent, The_ (D. H. Lawrence), 236
Pocahontas, 232, 241, 305, 307
Poe, Edgar Allen, 67, 231, 278, 290, 331
_Poetry_ (Chicago), 25, 51, 289, 373 f., 410 n.
Poetry Society of America, 7
Pollard, Percival, 44
Polo, Marco, 242
_Poor White_ (S. Anderson), 47, 53
*“Porphyro in Akron,” 40, 42 f., 51, 64
Porter, Katherine Anne, 367, 370, 373, 377-378, 383
_Port of New York_ (Rosenfeld), 202
_Portrait of the Artist_ (Joyce), 99, 313
_Possessed_, The (Dostoievsky), 46 f., 49 f.
*“Possessions,” 176
Potamkin, Harry Alan, 240
Potapovitch, Stan, 8
Pound, Ezra, 28, 41, 44, 51, 54, 61 ff., 64, 66, 70, 86, 88, 96
*“Powhatan’s Daughter,” 305
Powitzki, Mrs., 286
Powys, John Cowper, 136
*“Praise for an Urn,” 93, 104, 259
_Principles of Literary Criticism_ (I. A. Richards), 314
Proust, Marcel, 66
Provincetown Theatre, 40, 174, 177, 214
_Psychoanalytic Quarterly_, viii
*“Quaker Hill,” 345, 347
Quinn, John, 47
Rabelais, 30, 36, 56
_Rahab_ (Waldo Frank), 98-99, 108
_Rainbow, The_ (D. H. Lawrence), 43
Ransom, John Crowe, 100, 289
Rauh, Ida, 28
Ravel, Maurice, 66, 108, 129, 139-140
Ray, Man, 52, 94-95
*“Recitative,” 161, 176
Reeck, Emil, 84, 97
_Re-discovery of America, The_ (Waldo Frank), 318-319, 322 f., 326, 335
Rembrandt, 54
_Renaissance, The_ (Pater), 161
_Revista de Occidente_, 313 n., 314
Rickword, Edgell, 259, 281, 333
Riding, Laura, 217, 291, 294, 321, 333 f., 341
_Rimbaud_ (E. Rickword), 283
Rimbaud, Arthur, 43, 45, 85, 162, 213, 252, 260 f., 270, 272, 317, 359,
374
*“River, The,” 303, 306-307
Rivera, Diego, 371
Robeson, Paul and Essie, 333
Robinson, Boardman, 54
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 89, 93
Robson, Peggy, 400
Rodin, Auguste, 46
Roebling, Washington, 293-294
Romains, Jules, 24
Rorty, James, 244
Rosenfeld, Paul, 75, 77, 95, 97 f., 102, 105, 126, 166, 178, 193-194,
202, 224, 291 f.
_Rouge et le Noir, Le_ (Stendhal), 64
Rousseau, Henri, 177
Russell, Bertrand, 240
Rychtarik, Charlotte, 106, 144-145, 247, 364 f., 408
Rychtarik, Richard, 106, 131, 132-133, 139, 141, 144-145, 147, 160,
247, 364 f.
_Sacre du Printemps, Le_ (Stravinsky), 200
_Sacred Wood, The_ (Eliot), 71
Sáenz, Moisés, 370, 372
Salmon, André, 66
Saltus, Edgar, 29, 44, 106, 187
_Salvos_ (Frank), 178
Sandburg, Carl, 69
San Pedro, California, 315, 319-320
Santayana, George, 240
Saphier, William, 70
Satie, Erik, 66
_Saturday Evening Post, The_, 284, 345
_Saturday Review of Literature, The_, 345
_Satyricon_ (Petronius Arbiter), 44, 105
Schmitt, Carl, 4 ff., 8
Schneider, Isidor, 231, 281
Schoenberg, Arnold, 177
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 41
_Science and the Modern World_ (A. N. Whitehead), 235
_Scientific American, The_, 271
Scriabin, Alexander, 63, 109, 129
Seaver, Edwin, 185, 218
_Secession_, 82, 84 f., 88, 94 f., 97, 100 f., 103, 105 ff., 108, 117,
121, 123 ff., 154 f., 178, 185
_Second April_ (Millay), 6
_S4N_, 120, 126
Seiberling, F. H., 30
Seldes, Gilbert, 70, 103
Seligmann, Herbert J., 195, 285
Seltzer, Thomas, 206
Service, Robert W., 73
_Seven Arts, The_, 9
Seltzer, Thomas, 206
_Shadowland_, 61, 63, 75
Shakespeare, 67, 129, 289, 299 f.
Shelley, P. B., 67
*“Sherwood Anderson,” 59-60, 61 ff.
Simpson, Eyler, 395
Simpson, Lesley, 393, 399, 404
Simpson, Marion, 399
Simpson, Mrs. T. W. (“Aunt Sally”), 152, 248-249, 251 ff., 286
_Since Cézanne_ (Clive Bell), 96
Siqueros, David Alfaro, 384-385, 386-387, 388
Sistine Chapel, 305
Sitwell, Edith, 44
_1601_ (Mark Twain), 26, 28, 30
_Smart Set, The_, 10 n., 25, 34
Smith, Captain John, 306
Smith, Claire. _See_ Spencer, Claire
Smith, Elizabeth, 172-173
Smith, Harrison, 17, 19 f., 22, 128, 155-167, 180, 224, 334-335
_Sodome et Gomorrhe_ (Proust), 316, 322
Sommer, William, 54 ff., 58 ff., 71, 75, 78, 83, 86, 89-90, 92, 95, 98,
101 f., 105, 107, 113-114, 115, 119, 137, 233, 363-364
Soupault, Philippe, 104, 294, 336, 341
_South Wind_ (Norman Douglas), 280
Spencer, Claire, 12, 17, 19 f., 22, 136, 180, 409
Spencer, Jessie, 12 f.
Spencer, Pat, 12
Spengler, Oswald, 158, 259 f., 267, 285, 293, 313, 319, 322, 357, 366
Speyer, Leonora, 67
_Spoon River Anthology_ (Masters), 28
Spinoza, Baruch, 363
Spratling, William, 388, 401, 404
Springhorn, Carl, 63
*“Stark Major,” 117-118, 121, 124, 126
_Starved Rock_ (Masters), 28
Stein, Gertrude, 121 f., 167, 294, 311, 321, 336, 341
Stella, Joseph, 335, 339, 345
Stendhal, 64, 79
Stevens, Emily, 43
Stevens, Wallace, 25, 37, 53, 71, 88, 289
Stieglitz, Alfred, 95, 107, 113-114, 128 f., 141, 166 f., 170, 177,
195, 202
_Story of San Michele, The_ (Axel Munthe), 366
Strand, Paul, 195
Strauss, Richard, 108, 129
Stravinsky, 200, 238
_Success_, 284
_Sun Also Rises, The_ (Hemingway), 286-288
*“Sunday Morning Apples,” 96, 195
Swann’s Way (Marcel Proust), 263
Swinburne, A. C., 332
Synge, John M., 71
Szold, Bernadine, 341
Szymanowski, Karol, 177
Taggard, Genevieve, 353 f.
“Tampa Schooner” (“Repose of Rivers”), 259
_Taras Bulba_ (N. Gogol), 80-81
_Tarr_ (Wyndham Lewis), 69
Tate, Allen, 87, 100 ff., 104, 107, 118, 121 f., 126, 131, 185, 195,
197, 211, 215, 224 ff., 237, 239 f., 244, 245-249, 267 f., 270 f., 273,
284 f., 296, 313, 321, 341, 384
Tate, Caroline. _See_ Gordon, Caroline
Teagle, J. Walter, 357 ff., 363
Teasdale, Sara, 67
_Tempest, The_ (Shakespeare), 317
_Temptation of Anthony, The_ (Schneider), 287
Tennyson, Lord, 67
Tepoztlan, Mexico, 380-383, 388
_Tertium Organum_ (P. D. Ouspensky), 124
Théâtre du Vieux Colombier, 178
_Their Day in Court_ (Percival Pollard), 105
Thomas, Edward, 72, 88
Thomas, Harold, 6
Thompson, Basil, 59
Thompson, Francis, 67
Thompson, Robert, 400, 409
_Three Soldiers_ (Dos Passos), 68
_Through Traffic_ (Russell Davenport), 366
Tiberius, 52, 63
_Time and Western Man_ (Wyndham Lewis), 317, 319
Toomer, Jean, 149 f., 155, 162, 166 f., 185, 195, 214
Torrence, Ridgely, 289
_transition_, 294, 334
_Tristram Shandy_ (Laurence Sterne), 91
_Triumph of the Egg, The_ (S. Anderson), 65, 73, 76
_Trois Poèmes Juifs_ (Bloch), 82
_Trans-Atlantic Review_, The, 185
Tschaikowsky, P. I., 109
*“Tunnel, The,” 274-275, 278
Turbyfill, Mark, 125
Turner, Addie M., 224, 242, 245 ff.,
255, 286, 292 f., 354
Turner, W. J., 330
Twain, Mark, 17, 26 f., 30
Tzara, Tristan, 84
_Ulysses_ (Joyce), 62, 69, 71-73, 94 ff., 101, 127, 143 f., 288
_Un Coeur Virginal_ (R. de Gourmont), 73, 79 f.
Underwood, Wilbur, 43-44, 155, 325
Untermeyer, Louis, 104, 107 f., 118, 244
Vail, Lawrence, 335, 406
Valéry, Paul, 195, 113, 300, 325, 372
Valle, Rafael, 373
Van Doren, Mark, 285
_Vanity Fair_, 61, 94, 345
Van Vuren, Floyd, 350
*“Van Winkle,” 290, 306
Varèse, Edgar, 177, 334, 341
Vaughan, Henry, 88, 301
Vedanta, 242
Verlaine, Paul, 239
Vielé-Griffin, Francis, 104
Vildrac, Charles, 37, 45, 60
Villon, François, 36
Virgil, ix
*“Virginia,” 272
_Virgin Spain_ (Frank), 235-236, 242, 274
_Vision and Design_ (Roger Fry), 57
Vlaminck, de, Maurice, 87, 90
*“Voyages,” viii, 187, 192, 215, 218, 224, 244
Wagner, Richard, 108, 135
_Waldo Frank_ (Munson), 104, 115, 119, 125, 128 f.
Walton, Mrs., 10
Walton, Eda Lou, 366
_Wall Street Journal, The_, 324
Warren, Ohio, xvii, 292
Warren, Robert Penn, 321
Washington, D.C., 42 ff.
_Waste Land, The_ (Eliot), 105, 127, 271 f., 350 f.
_Way of All Flesh, The_ (Samuel Butler), 39
Webster, John, 25, 67, 71, 86, 88, 129
Wells, H. G., 319
Wescott, Glenway, 125, 166, 316, 341
Watson, J. Sibley, 103, 136-137
_Whale Ships and Whaling_ (G. F. Dow), 235
Wheeler, Monroe, 125
Wheelwright, John B., 125-126, 154
*_White Buildings_, xviii, 199 ff., 202-203, 205, 213 f., 218 ff., 254,
258-259, 262-263, 267, 270, 277, 280 f., 284 f., 290-291, 292, 294-295,
340, 345, 353
White, Hervey, 34 f.
Whitehead, A. N., 321
_White-Jacket_ (Melville), 235
Whitman, Walt, 67, 73, 128, 184, 223, 241, 261-262, 284, 290, 308, 352,
353-354
Wiegand, Charmion, 131, 180, 333-334
Wilcox, Walter, 10
Wilde, Oscar, 38, 44
Wilder, Thornton, viii, 357
Wilkinson, Marguerite, 67, 104
Williams, William Carlos, 37, 51, 53, 102, 105, 114, 278, 294, 324
Wilson, Edmund, 195, 298, 301
*“Wine Menagerie, The,” 218, 220
_Winesburg, Ohio_ (S. Anderson), 34, 47, 75
*“Winesburg, Ohio” (review), 23
Winters, Yvor, 278, 284 f., 288 f., 294, 313 f., 317, 321, 348, 352 ff.
Wise, Herbert, 316, 318, 322, 324, 326, 331
Wolfe, Thomas, 375
Woodstock, New York, xvii, 154, 156 ff.
Wright, Cuthbert, 100
_Wuthering Heights_ (Emily Brontë), 316-317
Wylie, Elinor, 243
_Yale Review, The_, 375
Yeats, W. B., 86, 88, 95, 300
_Young Visitors, The_ (Daisy Ashford), 25
Zabel, Monroe Dauwen, 410 n.
Zigrosser, Carl, 158
Zinsser, Dr. Hans, 368
Zwaska, Caesar, 27, 96
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Christian Science.
[2] A Christian Science practitioner.
[3] Mr. Crane’s employee.
[4] “My novel about the Isle of Pines has been somewhat blown to pieces
by that blasting letter of yours. However I am busy thinking up plots
for _Smart Set_ stories. You see, I want to make my literary work bring
me in a living by the time I reach twenty-five and one cannot begin too
soon.” (Letter to his mother, Oct. 6, 1917.)
[5] Crane’s landlady. “Mrs. Walton and I are working out movie
scenarios. She has had considerable experience and is of great help to
me.” (Letter to his mother, Oct. 8, 1917.)
[6] “Mother, when you arrive, I hope you will take up the Noyes dancing
and enter the movies. You will find it fun I am sure, and I shall help
you too. I am really getting a reputation for poetry and can find space
now in at least two magazines for most of my better work.” (Letter to
his mother, Oct. 26, 1917.)
[7] Postcard. On the reverse side, over a photograph of Brooklyn
Bridge, Crane wrote: “Knowing your predilection for bridges, I send you
this!”
[8] “Garden Abstract”; see Brom Weber, _Hart Crane_ (New York: Bodley
Press, 1948), p. 76.
[9] “Garden Abstract.”
[10] “Episode of Hands”; see Weber, _op. cit._, p. 384.
[11] “Porphyro in Akron,” together with the comment: “The last is so
far the only satisfactory part. I include the first two sections merely
as hints for direction of the theme.” See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 89-90.
[12] See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 91-92.
[13] “Black Tambourine”; see Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 95-6.
[14] “The Bridge of Estador”; see Weber, _op. cit._, p. 385.
[15] See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 108-9.
[16] “The Bottom of the Sea Is Cruel.” Sent to Munson, Oct. 1, 1921.
[17] John Webster, _The Duchess of Malfi_, III, ii, 66-70.
[18] The rest of this letter has been lost.
[19] “Glad you really like my Silenus letter.” (Letter to Munson, June
28, 1922.)
[20] See Weber, _op. cit._, p. 176.
[21] “Sunday Morning Apples.”
[22] “The Bottom of the Sea Is Cruel.”
[23] It was accepted by Josephson.
[24] _The Double Dealer._
[25] _Secession._
[26] Sommer’s work was accepted by _The Dial_.
[27] “Faustus and Helen” III.
[28] “Stark Major.”
[29] See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 426-28.
[30] See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 428-9.
[31] See Weber, _op. cit._, p. 224. For line 13, word 2, read:
alternating.
[32] “Interludium.”
[33] E. E. Cummings.
[34] Crane had written his father a six-line letter on Oct. 20, 1923
requesting that his father telephone him on the occasion of his next
New York visit. Mr. Clarence A. Crane regarded this letter as an
aggressive unaffectionate note after three years of silence on Crane’s
part (Letter, Oct. 27, 1923, C.A.C. to H.C.). Crane replied on Nov.
13th, informing his father of his trip to Woodstock. His father’s
letter acknowledged that he viewed the Nov. 13th letter as a sign
of friendship, and stated that he would be in New York sometime in
1924 (Letter, Dec. 10, 1923, C.A.C. to H.C.). On account of business
expansion and relocation problems, it seemed doubtful that Crane’s
father would be in New York as expected. Accordingly, in a letter of
Jan. 7, 1924, he offered his son a travelling salesman’s job. After
three years of satisfactory performance, his son would assume control
of the wholesale portion of the business. This letter of Jan. 12,
1924, is Hart Crane’s response to the offer. His father responded
sympathetically; he sent his son a check, stated that he would continue
to provide financial assistance, recognized the sincerity and wisdom
of his son’s choice, and attempted to demonstrate a similarity between
them by asserting that he (like his son) was primarily interested in
“accomplishment” rather than “money” (Letter, Jan. 15, 1924, C.A.C. to
H.C.). Hart Crane viewed his father’s letter of the 15th as a “sincere
and cordial document” (Letter, Jan. 19, 1924, H.C. to his mother).
[35] “And there have been other complications which may afford you the
pleasure of vindictiveness against my ideas and standards....” (Letter,
Feb. 14, 1924, H.C. to C.A.C.) Crane’s father resented this remark,
and denied ever being able to derive pleasure from such an attitude
to his son’s life and work. He explained his attitude as a failure to
understand how his son could ever hope to support himself unless he
took his advertising work seriously, and stated that he would be more
sympathetic if his son were to regard his writing as an “avocation”
rather than a “vocation,” a hobby similar to the pastime of “golf.”
(Letter, Feb. 21, 1924, C.A.C. to H.C.) In the letters which follow
Hart Crane’s rejection of a place in his father’s business, the elder
Crane appears bitterly hurt that his son doesn’t want to work with
him. At the same time, he makes it quite clear that he has a genuine
affection for his son, and reiterates that he does not question the
devotion to poetry, only its inability to provide financial returns.
Later, in a letter of Nov. 25, 1925, he introduces the point that
he believes his son to be interested in “pleasure,” rather than in
following his own example of a man who “worked strenuously.”
[36] See Weber, _op. cit._, p. 395.
[37] An early version of “Voyages IV.”
[38] Crane had visited Cleveland.
[39] A version of “At Melville’s Tomb.”
[40] Crane had asked his father for money in a letter of Nov. 4, 1925.
His father responded with a check for $50, accompanied by a letter in
which he expressed resentment at his son’s contemptuous tone and was
himself sarcastic at his son’s expense. (Letter, C.A.C. to H.C., Nov.
17, 1925). Replying to this letter of Nov. 21, 1925, C.A.C. denied
being uninterested in his son’s life, denied that “‘fate’” had caused
their estrangement, and put the blame on his son instead. He reiterated
his belief in the necessity for earning a living and putting writing on
a subsidiary level, and expressed a desire for friendlier relations in
the future. (Letter, C.A.C. to H.C., Nov. 25, 1925.)
[41] “The Flower in the Sea,” by Malcolm Cowley, dedicated to Crane.
[42] See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 430-432.
[43] _The Oresteia of Aeschylus_, trans. George Warr (Longman’s Green:
1910).
[44] George Francis Dow, _Whale Ships and Whaling_ (1925).
[45] See Philip Horton, _Hart Crane_ (New York: W. W. Norton & Co.,
1937), pp. 323-28.
[46] Early version of lines for “Ave Maria.”
[47] An early version of “The Mango Tree.”
[48] Thomas Frank.
[49] “Ave Maria” (_The Bridge_).
[50] “Cutty Sark” (_The Bridge_).
[51] See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 437-40.
[52] If not a simple error, Crane has coined a combination of
“petulant” and “pestilent.”
[53] An early version of “To Emily Dickinson.”
[54] “Ode to the Confederate Dead.”
[55] Review of _White Buildings_ in _The Dial_ (Feb. 1927).
[56] Marichalar had written on Crane in _Revista de Occidente_
(Madrid), February 1927.
[57] “Bacardi Spreads the Eagle’s Wings.”
[58] “The Hurricane.”
[59] Charlie Chaplin.
[60] Cowley’s _Blue Juniata_.
[61] Gorham Munson, at this time an editorial adviser for Doubleday,
Doran.
[62] See letter 340, April 23, 1930.
[63] In a letter to Crane, June 10, 1930.
[64] Crane’s “Plans for Work” in his application for a Guggenheim
Fellowship for 1931-32.
[65] A hotel. Crane had been living in Miss Porter’s home.
[66] Miss Porter’s cook.
[67] Crane’s Mexican servant.
[68] “The Broken Tower.”
[69] “The Broken Tower.”
[70] The manuscript of “The Broken Tower” alluded to here was
apparently never received by Mr. Zabel or _Poetry_ (Chicago), of which
he was an editor. A letter from Mr. Zabel, dated April 24, 1932, in
response to this note from Crane, has been found; it explicitly states
that the poem in question was not received either by Harriet Monroe or
himself. It is of interest that Crane’s ms. copy of the poem is dated
March 25, 1932.
[71] _Contempo_ (July 5, 1932).
Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
impossiblity of shaping=> impossibility of shaping {pg xi}
my enthusastic “public”=> my enthusiastic “public” {pg 64}
wth potato and onion=> with potato and onion {pg 159}
without damage the drawings=> without damage to the drawings {pg 200}
much outdor exercise=> much outdoor exercise {pg 208}
would glady write=> would gladly write {pg 219}
advertising coypwriter=> advertising copywriter {pg 221}
Furtherfore, they are=> Furthermore, they are {pg 253}
he bane good company=> he made good company {pg 255}
answer my saluations=> answer my salutations {pg 273}
this vicnity=> this vicinity {pg 351}
metrooplitan area=> metropolitan area {pg 359}
do you inten=> do you intend {pg 399}