Modern American Poetry

(^272) Edward Hirsch the basis for Stevens’s radical humanism, his belief that the modern poet must rediscover the earth. In the ...

Helmet of Fire: American Poetry in the 1920s 273 and “Sunday Morning.” In a way all of Stevens’s poems about the relationship be ...

(^274) Edward Hirsch Crane’s poems are “drunk with words.” He was more interested in associational meanings than in ordinary log ...

Helmet of Fire: American Poetry in the 1920s 275 transposition of jazz into words! Something clean, sparkling, elusive.”^69 This ...

(^276) Edward Hirsch time he read the development of American experience as analogous to the growth of spiritual consciousness. ...

Helmet of Fire: American Poetry in the 1920s 277 Wylie, Teasdale, Bogan, Adams, and, to a lesser extent, Millay were skilled met ...

(^278) Edward Hirsch history. One of the romantic splendors of their poetry is its persistent spiritual aspiration in a world re ...

Helmet of Fire: American Poetry in the 1920s 279 Eliot, Selected Prose,177. Eliot, For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and O ...

(^280) Edward Hirsch Stevens, The Necessary Angel(London: Faber and Faber, 1951), 142. Stevens, Opus Posthumous,158. Stevens, T ...

281 If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained;—yet in bold quest thereof, bet ...

(^282) Langdon Hammer time, Crane turned toward the sea, toward the past, and toward Melville, the history of whose reception ga ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 283 had never been entirely alive. Melville was a minor author of sea tales whose appeal was closely ...

(^284) Langdon Hammer mean more than his livelihood. Both of these quests, being dedicated to absolute satisfactions, necessaril ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 285 starts, repeated beginnings; in “At Melville’s Tomb,” Crane claims that discontinuity as a sign ...

(^286) Langdon Hammer discourse cut loose from—“wide from”—the proprieties of conventional reference, and therefore “shocking to ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 287 which is figured, in subsequent stanzas, in Crane’s vortical images of “shells,” “calyx,” and “c ...

(^288) Langdon Hammer of certain messages undelivered, mute evidence of certain things, experiences that the dead mariners might ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 289 Eliot’s vortex returns in “At Melville’s Tomb,” but Crane’s interest is in the centrifugal force ...

(^290) Langdon Hammer Tate’s sense of poetic structure as container and Crane’s sense of poetic structure as “portent”—as a sign ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 291 reader with “a livid hieroglyph.” They are the decipherable but complexly encoded, complexly bur ...