ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -He saw hope as an important part of literature, and his poems took on the more optimistic view of traditional poetry. So, he is often referred to as a Modernist Romantic; that is, his style was Modernist, but his optimistic view was Romantic.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hart Crane, in full Harold Hart Crane, (born July 21, 1899, Garrettsville, Ohio, U.S.-died April 27, 1932, at sea, Caribbean Sea), American poet who celebrated the richness of life-including the life of the industrial age-in lyrics of visionary intensity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Historically, Crane is a modernist who departs widely from the movement. His effort to write a long poem belongs to the early stages of modernism when Ezra Pound was starting The Cantos, T. S. Eliot completing The Waste Land, and William Carlos Williams was producing Spring & All and In the American Grain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Crane sought solace in sex but inevitably found heartbreak, for his infatuations with other men, including many sailors, went largely unreciprocated. By 1922 Crane had already written many of the poems that would comprise his first collection, White Buildings.