Tuesday, October 31, 2006

News at Eleven: Despite [Hart] Crane's "genuine and deep

admiration for Mr. Eliot's work," as he explains in a letter to Louis Untermeyer, the goal of his own poem "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen" is to "erect an almost antithetical spiritual attitude to the pessimism of The Waste Land . . . It has been my conviction . . . that ecstasy and beauty are as possible to the active imagination now as ever. (What did Blake have from the 'outside' to excite him?)"

from The Washington Times: Poet whose life was short but whose poems endure

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