Hart Crane's Poetry: Appollinaire Lived in Paris, I Live in Cleveland, Ohio

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Cover; Contents; Preface; Part One. The Bridge; 1 The Pictorial and the Poetic; The Bridge as a Prophetic Vision of Origins; 2 The Visual Structure of Prophetic Vision; a Simultaneous Glimpse Before and Behind; 3 Spengler's Reading of Perspective as a Culture-Symbol; 4 The Bridge and the Paintings in the Sistine Chapel; Moses and Jesus: Columbus and Whitman; Joseph Stella; El Greco's Agony in the Garden; the Grail; Dionysus and Jesus; 5 Counterpoint in The Bridge; 6 Foreshadowing and Lateral Foreshadowing; the Grail Quest; Eliot's The Waste Land; 7 The Return to Origin. Cover Contents Preface Part One. The Bridge 1 The Pictorial and the Poetic The Bridge as a Prophetic Vision of Origins 2 The Visual Structure of Prophetic Vision a Simultaneous Glimpse Before and Behind 3 Spengler's Reading of Perspective as a Culture-Symbol 4 The Bridge and the Paintings in the Sistine Chapel Moses and Jesus: Columbus and Whitman Joseph Stella El Greco's Agony in the Garden the Grail Dionysus and Jesus 5 Counterpoint in The Bridge 6 Foreshadowing and Lateral Foreshadowing the Grail Quest Eliot's The Waste Land 7 The Return to Origin. The Total Return to the Womb the Primal Scene Vision and Invisibility the Dual Identification 8 The Reversal of the Figures of Father and Mother in "Indiana" Crane's Dream of the Black Man by the River Crane's Quarrel with His Father the Composition of "Black Tambourine" 9 Crane's Dream of His Mother's Trunk in the Attic 10 Fantasies of Return to the Womb and the Primal Scene Three Dimensions Reduced to Two as a Sign of Body Transcendence the Triple Archetype Goethe's Faust Plato's Cave Allegory as aSublimated Womb Fantasy Helen as Mother. The Influence of Williams and Nietzsche Demeter, Korē, and the Amerindian Corn Mother 11 Building the Virgin Crane's "To Liberty" Lazarus's "The New Colossus" Helen and Psyche Astraea and the Constellation Virgo Demeter and Korē the Virgin Mary and Queen Elizabeth I 12 The Education of Henry Adams Arnold's "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" Wandering between Two Worlds Seneca's Medea Whitman and the Rebound Seed 13 "Three Songs" Golden Hair "Quaker Hill" and the Motherly Artist the Return of the Golden Age Astraea and Atlantis. 14 Epic Predecessors: Aeneas and Dido Survival through a Part-Object Stellar Translation and the Golden-Haired Grain 15 The Historical Pocahontas and the Mythical Quetzalcoatl Prescott, Spence, and D.H. Lawrence as Influences on The Bridge Waldo Frank's Our America and the Image of Submergence 16 Nietzsche and the Return of the Old Gods Zarathustra and Quetzalcoatl the Eagle and the Serpent the Dance 17 The Aeneid, Book 6, and "The Tunnel" "Cutty Sark" and Glaucus in Ovid Burns's "Tam o' Shanter" Glaucus in Keats's Endymion 18 Time and Eternity in "Cutty Sark." Stamboul Rose, Atlantis Rose, and Dante's Rose Moby-Dick and "Cutty Sark" 19 The Historical Cutty Sark Hero and Leander Jason and the Argo Dante and the Argo 20 Constellations and The Bridge 21 Constellations Continued Panis Angelicus 22 Time and Eternity Temporal Narrative and Spatial Configuration the Bridge as Memory Place "Atlantis" One Arc Synoptic of All Times 23 "Atlantis" and the Image of Flight Shelley's "To a Skylark" Pater and the Tears of Dionysus 24 Love and Light Love-as-Bridgeship Pater and Botticelli's Venus Venus and the Rainbow Foam-Born.