Visionary Company: Hart Crane and Modernist Periodicals

This book examines the poetry of Hart Crane and his circle within transnational modernist periodical culture. It reappraises Crane’s poetry and reception and introduces several lost works by the poet, including critical prose, reviews and ’Nopal’, a poem written in Mexico. Through its exploration of Crane’s close engagement with periodical culture, it provides a rich and detailed panorama of twentieth-century literary and artistic communities. In particular, this monograph offers a vivid portrait of forgotten periodicals and their artistic communities, examines the periodical contexts in which modernist poetry fused material and aesthetic experimentation and explores Crane’s important and neglected influence on modern and contemporary poetry.

Francesca Bratton is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature in the Department of English at Uppsala University. She has published articles and reviews in English, PN Review, Notes & Queries and Year’s Work In English Studies. In 2013-14 she was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress.