On a ship home from Mexico, he jumped overboard and was lost to the Caribbean Ocean in 1932. In spite of his success as a poet, Crane never really escaped his own inner torments. He structured its 15 parts like a symphony. It was inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge and celebrates the creative power of the human race, especially throughout the history of America. He liked the city, and often in his work he tried to create a bridge between his contemporary world and ages gone by in fact, his best-known work is an epic poem called The Bridge (1930). His first book, White Buildings, was published in 1926. He moved to New York in 1923, where he sold advertising and published some poems in literary magazines unlike his personal viewpoint, his poetry was optimistic. Always quite high strung, he never took the family discord well, and his mentally unstable mother turned him against his father for the rest of his life he carried a reputation for being emotionally volatile.
He grew up in Cleveland, to parents who were unhappily married and eventually divorced when he was 17. It’s the birthday of poet Hart Crane (1899), born Harold Hart Crane in Garrettsville, Ohio.
The Soviet Union was the first country to put him on a postage stamp, which they did in 1956. His poems are taught to Russian schoolchildren along with the works of their native poets, and a 1924 translation of his poetry by Samuil Marshak sold more than 600,000 copies, making him nearly as popular as Pushkin. Since his death, he’s been memorialized all over the world, but he’s perhaps more beloved in Russia than in any place outside Scotland, and he has long been viewed there as “the people’s poet.” His background as a farmer made him popular with the peasantry in Imperialist Russia, who felt misunderstood by the aristocracy later, his support of the French Revolution and socialism made him popular with the Soviet government.
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He was buried with full military honors four days later his wife was at home giving birth to their son, Maxwell, and wasn’t at the funeral. His health went downhill after a tooth extraction the winter before his death, so he may have developed endocarditis - an inflammation in the lining of the heart - as a result.
He likely had a chronic heart condition following a case of rheumatic fever when he was a child. Some who knew his reputation as a tippler and a ladies’ man speculated that he died of drunkenness, or venereal disease, or both. He found it exhausting to try to balance the social and intellectual demands of life as a literary celebrity with the physically exhausting labor of farming, and he aged prematurely. He wasn’t at ease there, though, and eventually moved back out of the city, to a farm in Dumfriesshire. He left his role as tenant farmer and moved to Edinburgh to be a celebrity. He made a name for himself when he published Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect in 1786, and he was hailed by literary critics and rural folk alike. On this date in 1796, Scots poet Robert Burns died at the age of 37. “ Runways Café II ” by Marilyn Hacker, from Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons.
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