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A Review of Edward J. Brunner's "Splendid Failure: Hart Crane and the Making of "The Bridge"

1987; University of Iowa; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17077/0021-065x.3483

2330-0361

Carl D. Esbjornson,

American and British Literature Analysis

Splendid Failure is a well thought-out, surprising, original approach to Hart Crane's poetry.Brunner dedicates his book to the memory of Merle Brown, one of his teachers at the University of Iowa whom he mentions in the Acknowledgments as having "urged his stu dents to find their own approaches. . .and to think them through no mat ter how far they led in unexpected directions.