Hart Crane's 'The Bridge': An Annotated Edition

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sources The text of The Bridge in this edition follows Crane’s corrected proofs to the second edition, published in New York by Liveright in 1930; Crane preferred this text to the first edition, published in Paris by Black Sun Press in the same year. The corrected Liveright text is the one used by The Complete Poems of Hart Crane: A Centennial Edition, edited by Marc Simon (New York: Liveright, 1986). Crane’s letters are from The Letters of Hart Crane: –, edited by Brom Weber (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965). To avoid annotating the annotation, the notes in this edition acknowledge specific scholarly debts informally. But three sources require full acknowledgment here. For information on the burlesque scene in the 1920s: Gordon A. Tapper, The Machine That Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body (New York: Routledge, 2006). For popular song texts of the day: John Irwin, ‘‘Hart Crane’s The Bridge II,’’ Raritan 9 (2006): 99–113, and Susan Jenkins Brown, Robber Rocks: Letters and Memories of Hart Crane (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1969). xi ...