Binder Cranium

Harold Binder Cranium , born the July 21st 1899 and deceased the April 27th 1932, is an American poet characteristic of the modernistic movement which upset the Anglo-Saxon literary world in the first decades of the 20th century. Finding in the poetry of T.S. Eliot a source as well of inspiration as of provocation, it dissociates pessimistic vision however and ironic of this last. Hart Crane writes a traditional poetry in the form, resorting to an antiquated and difficult vocabulary. Even if its poetry were often criticized because of its difficult access, in particular by the use of plentiful images and a difficult language, Hart Cranium proved to be one of the most influential poets of its generation.

Hart Crane was born in 1899 in the village from Garretsville, in the Ohio. His/her father is not other than Clarence Hart, a confectioner who made fortune while inventing and by marketing the candies Life Savers . The parents of the poet, regularly in conflict, divorce in 1916. Very quickly afterwards, it leaves the schooling and settles in New York. Between 1917 and 1924, it will travel between New York and Cleveland, working at the same time as writer to provide for his needs in New York, and as employed in the company of his/her father when it is with money court.

According to the letters of Binder Cranium, it appears that it is with New York that it feels more at his place, and it is in this city that he writes the major part of his poems. Hart Crane is homosexual. It falls in love with a sailor who breaks the heart to him, which inspires its poem Voyages to him.

The Bridge constitutes one of its major works: it is about a letter in which he evokes his amazement for the Pont of Brooklyn and for modern technology, symbol according to him of a bond between the old one and the new one.

It Suicide the April 27th 1932 by throwing bridge of a Steamer in the Caribbean Sea.

Prose and poetry of Binder Cranium

  • White Buildings (1926) ISBN 0871401797

  • The Bridge (1930) ISBN 0871400251
  • The Supplements Poems and Selected Letters and Prose (1966)
  • O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters off Binder Cranium (1997)

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