Christian Tears; Pagan Smiles: Hart Crane’s “Lachrymae Christi”

When American poet Hart Crane declares in a letter, “I felt the two worlds. And at once,” he speaks bluntly of the governing tension of his poetry: the knocking of Harold Hart Crane’s finite language against the hard, transparent ceiling beyond which he senses the divine. Crane’s first collection, W...

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Main Author: Stenclik, Eric (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Religion and the arts
Year: 2014, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 349-372
Further subjects:B Hart Crane American poetry Christ in poetry mysticism and poetry
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