![]() ![]() It was not a happy home though and when Crane was 18 his parents divorced. Harold Hart Crane was born in 1899, the son of a successful candy and chocolate bar producer in Garrettsville, Ohio. He had been both inspired and depressed by T S Eliot’s similarly epic piece ( The Waste Land) and he hoped to produce something at least as well received, but at the same time a piece of work with more sincerity and optimism than Eliot’s. It failed though and, because of that, he found himself mentally and physically crushed. The fact that he put so much time and effort into his one great epic piece of work ( The Bridge) suggests that he thought that this would be the answer. Here is a troubled individual who struggled right through his short life to find himself. ![]()
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