The Bridge, first published in 1930, is Hart Crane's first, and only, attempt at an American long poem. (Its primary status as either an epic or a series of lyrical poems remains contested; recent criticism tends to read it as a hybrid, perhaps indicative of a new genre, the 'modernist epic. ') The Bridge was inspired by New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, which has appeared in the work of so many poets that Poets. org named it a "poetry landmark.

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  • The Bridge, first published in 1930, is Hart Crane's first, and only, attempt at an American long poem. (Its primary status as either an epic or a series of lyrical poems remains contested; recent criticism tends to read it as a hybrid, perhaps indicative of a new genre, the 'modernist epic. ') The Bridge was inspired by New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, which has appeared in the work of so many poets that Poets. org named it a "poetry landmark. " Crane lived for some time at 110 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn, where he had an excellent view of the bridge; only after The Bridge was finished did Crane learn that one of its key builders, Washington Roebling, had once lived at the same address.
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  • The Bridge, first published in 1930, is Hart Crane's first, and only, attempt at an American long poem. (Its primary status as either an epic or a series of lyrical poems remains contested; recent criticism tends to read it as a hybrid, perhaps indicative of a new genre, the 'modernist epic. ') The Bridge was inspired by New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, which has appeared in the work of so many poets that Poets. org named it a "poetry landmark.
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  • The Bridge (long poem)
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