Modern American Poetry

(^292) Langdon Hammer “capital,” the architectural term for the crown of a column, from the Latin caputfor “head.” It is possibl ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 293 an indication of the inadequacy of Crane’s exposition so much as an accurate description of the ...

(^294) Langdon Hammer might have had to deliver.” The mystical “new word” is a secular synecdoche of a sacred Word, colored by C ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 295 (Crane, Complete Poems and Selected Prose,235). In “At Melville’s Tomb,” Crane seeks to recover ...

(^296) Langdon Hammer position to infer it on the basis of their own experience; and what is implied, in this case, is most sign ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 297 repetition of the event; and the reciprocity that author and reader demand and project results i ...

(^298) Langdon Hammer in the first and fourth quatrains, deferring the objects of the verbs “bequeath” and “contrive.”) The othe ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 299 which interrupts, if it does not really suspend, the progress of the poem at that moment when th ...

(^300) Langdon Hammer toward paradise.” Both “spindrift” and the odd word—“findrinny”—that it replaced in Crane’s revision are “ ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 301 built towers and bridges, but itself is inevitably as fluid as always” (Crane, Complete Poems an ...

(^302) Langdon Hammer Milton’s “Lycidas” and Matthew Arnold’s “Thyrsis” (Arnold’s elegy for Arthur Hugh Clough) as well as Melvi ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 303 “At Melville’s Tomb” was probably completed before Crane came to live with Tate and Gordon in De ...

(^304) Langdon Hammer Yielded, while sun-silt rippled them Asunder ... How much I would have bartered! the black gorge And all t ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 305 Crane’s “steep alcoves” as a kind of closet in which homosexual desire has been confined under a ...

(^306) Langdon Hammer space of enclosure beyond all enclosures, out “beyond the dykes,” where a “monsoon” cuts across the delta. ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 307 “‘Voyages,’ four remarkable poems by Allen Tate will appear in the next issue.’” The magazine fo ...

(^308) Langdon Hammer wholeness, to ‘broken intervals.’” Cameron, Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre (Baltimore, 1979 ...

Dice of Drowned Men’s Bones 309 between April 24 and May 1, 1926, as opposed to June 1926, during the weeks of intense depressio ...

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311 I’m not here to make exorbitant claims for poetry, lest they seem personal, but one thing must be said about poetry—it’s the ...