Quotes from the writings of the literary and religious critic, Harold Bloom. Help support my work on this page: https://t.co/x98imNXJMu
Hart Crane’s one supreme fiction is Brooklyn Bridge, not as a god or daemon is but as it might be, a bridge to Atlantis, to Walt Whitman, to a desired America.
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The Brooklyn Bridge, the subject of Hart Crane’s 1930 modernist epic poem “The Bridge,” opened #OTD in 1883. “The Bridge, in becoming a ship, a world, a woman, a tremendous harp as it does finally, seems to really have a career,” he wrote while working on his masterwork. https://t.co/5PQdTS8nkB
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The #BrooklynBridge, one of NYC’s most iconic landmarks, is the subject of many poems, including modernist poet Hart Crane’s 1930 poem The Bridge, and beat poet Jack Kerouac’s 1965 poem The Brooklyn Bridge Blues. Can you think of others? #NationalPoetryMonth #NYCLandmarks https://t.co/tYqhD647YD