Chapter XXV: Part FOUR: Mexico (3)

My Spanish is still as lame as my French when I left France. Of the “Epic”--I haven’t yet written a line. Only a few lyrics. But then, what did I actually write while in Europe--an environment not half so strange and distractingly new-old curious as this? Besides I’m nearly two miles above you here in the air--at least while I remain in these headquarters of mine in the suburbs of Mexico City,--an old-fashioned Mexican residence of 8 rooms, 3 servants, a luxurious garden--with a goat, fighting cock, cat, Spitz dog and an occasional scorpion--all for $50. a month. But I’ve about made my adjustment now and am beginning to rap the typewriter a good deal lately. With the world all going to hell--what can one gather together with any confidence these days anyway? But I’m realizing responsibilities--or doubtless should have written quite a bit of trash, which might have been better mentioned than perused.

Do you see Kay [Boyle] and Lawrence [Vail] any more? Kay’s novel _Plagued by the Nightingale_ (and how they please over here!) impressed and delighted me immensely. --/--/

397: TO MALCOLM COWLEY

[_Mixcoac_] _Easter ’32_

Dear Malcolm: Peggy and I think and talk a great deal about you. That means in a very fond way, or it wouldn’t be mentioned. I’m wondering whether or not you’ll like the above poem [“The Broken Tower”]--about the 1st I’ve written in two years.... I’m getting too damned self-critical to write at all any more. More than ever, however, do I implore your honest appraisal of this verse, prose or nonsense--whatever it may seem. Please let me know.

And because I congratulate you most vehemently on your recent account of the Kentucky expedition--please don’t tell me anything you don’t honestly mean. This has already been submitted to _Poetry_--so don’t worry about that angle.

I miss seeing you a great deal. Peggy is writing you some sort of account of the Easter celebrations here. We’re very happy together--and send you lots of love!

398: TO SAMUEL LOVEMAN

[_Mixcoac_] _Easter ’32_

What a jolly long letter from you, Sam! I can’t get time to answer immediately, but here’s a poem [“The Broken Tower”]--about the first in 2 years--tell me if you like it or not. Happiness continues, with also all of the gay incidentals of a Mexican Easter--exploding Judases, rockets, flowers, pappas (excuse me, that’s the spelling for Mexican potatoes!), mammas, delicious and infinitesimal children wearing masks and firemen’s helmets, flowers galore and a sky that carries you ever upward! More anon, and soon!

399: TO SOLOMON GRUNBERG

_Mixcoac, DF_ _April 12th, 1932_

Dear Mony: So glad to hear that the lacquer box reached you--and I hope there wasn’t duty on it. Things often get through (small articles) I’m told--if not sent by registered mail. The cutter is awaiting me at the main post office. At least I take the notice just rec’d to indicate _that_ as the article, as I’m not expecting anything else of late. -- -- -- --

I’m in a dull mood today, trying to get back into harness after a couple of feverish weeks spent in running thither and yon every day or so to borrow enough money to keep us going until my check from the estate finally arrived. Somehow I can’t get people to understand that any break in schedule regarding remittances in a foreign country like Mexico is quite catastrophic, especially when, like myself, you’re asking for a mere minimum for all expenses, and when the first of each month finds you with less than a shoe string to meet all obligations. Finally after borrowing money for wires, writing a dozen letters, etc., the check arrived; but I hope for a little more consistent treatment in the future. After all, it isn’t like asking for a favor; the money was left me in the will, and the least the executors can do is to send it to me on the schedule agreed on.

Through the son-in-law of the President I’m acquiring a permanent passport; something damned hard to get here these days. Peggy and I shall probably stay here at least until next fall, and maybe longer. We like our isolation from mutual friends there in the north and our domestic life here with a house, servants, garden, pets, etc., proves more satisfying every day. If I can avoid drinking too much I’m expecting to get nearer solid earth than I have for several years. Sheer loneliness had nearly eaten me up. Peggy has sufficient sportsmanship, mentality, taste and sensuality to meet me on practically every level. And I think I’m learning considerable that would hardly be possible from any other person.

--/--/ Most all the letters we get from the north are pretty damned blue and dubious in tone. Well, no wonder, of course. I sometimes wonder if I shouldn’t go back and wail around the grave of capitalism myself, adopting sackcloth and ashes too, instead of the beautiful bright woolen serape worn around here on cold evenings. All my friends are turning at least a violent pink lately, and I’m almost convinced myself. In fact, by all the laws of logic I _am_ convinced. But it goes so against my native grain--seeing nothing but red on the horizon. --/--/

Speaking of music, did you ever hear any _real_ Mexican songs and dances? Some of the best of them are now on disks which can be ordered, if not in stock, at least from the factory through your dealer: _Las Mañanitas_ (Brunswick #40397) might have been composed by Bach. It’s a ceremonial song played to one or another Mexican in honor of his birthday. Very solemn and eloquent. _La Marihuana_ (Victor 46107-A), a wild jargon about the native drug of the same name (generally smoked in cigarettes) and its effects. _Capulin_ (Victor 30323-A). A wild and throbbing native canción that will set you prancing.

The Mexican singer uses a part of his throat or larynx never used elsewhere that I know of, except in the Orient or Arabia. It has great range, is generally shrill but capable of heart-wringing vibrations. Has the old Hawaiian gargling backed off the map. It is nothing to have four or five singers (masons, plumbers or pickslingers during the day) drop in here for an evening’s singing. And to my mind they’re generally preferable to all the trained and professional strummers and whoopers-up I’ve ever heard. Tequila is passed around; or beer; or coffee. And the corridas (endless ballads) and seranatas go on for hours and hours. There are endless corridas about “poor Pancho Villa,” Zapata and other dead revolutionaries. And then, if we’re drunk enough, someone dances a _jarabe_, a dance that is all vibrant gristle, emphasis and exhausting grace. -- -- -- --

400: TO SAMUEL LOVEMAN

_Mixcoac, DF_ _April 13th, 1932_

Dear Sam: --/--/ Marsden Hartley, the painter, is here on his Guggenheim, as well as Andrew Dasburg. I don’t know the latter, but Hartley is delightful company and has brought a young nephew from Cleveland along with him who paints, on canvas, I mean.... Then I got a letter from Charlotte [Rychtarik] saying that she and Richard expected to motor down with some of their wealthy Cleveland friends--only to hear just yesterday, that a relative had died suddenly in Europe, money had to be sent--and therefore the trip had to be abandoned. Charlotte is philosophical enough, but I’m sorry not to see her refreshed by Mexico. Well ... maybe later. My biggest surprise in a long while, however, has been a note from dear old D---- C----. Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten our old Cleveland hero! Who is still trying to write novelettes and best sellers in Des Moines. At least he says he’s still trying. Is also the friend of some fellows who are trying to start up a quarterly, and wouldn’t I kindly send them some poems of mine.... I must write him a picture card at least in answer; but I’m damned if I want to continue any correspondence of that kind.

That last of yours was a bang up letter, Sam. Say what you will, you certainly haven’t lost your old good humor and sympathy. I love to think of my “Ka” as you and the Egyptians call it, still haunting my basement basinette on Col. Hts. Good lord, but how I jumped to my feet right into a perfect salute yesterday when suddenly--over the neighbor’s radio--I caught the chorus of that old favorite of mine, “The Navy Blues” ... which certainly you can’t have forgotten either. Which reminds me that I still haven’t heard from B---- S----since the recent fatal cyclones that swept right across his home town in A----. I wrote immediately for assurances of his welfare and safety. But no word yet. I can never forget that sweet boy; and his letters to me for the last two years have been so consistently affectionate and nostalgic that they sometimes bring tears to my eyes.

--/--/ Peggy and I have each of us written Tommy [Thompson] a letter today. I hope they cheer him up a little. He’s so shy he almost never writes any tangible news about himself. Just wise cracks, burlesque slogans, oblique hints: all very witty and amusing, but not quite explicit enough about himself to really fully satisfy. He’s probably having his worries these days. --/--/

Dos Passos has written a very important record of the war and the “war mind” in _1919_. Do read it, Sam. My old friend (though an “enemy for awhile”) Claire (Spencer) Smith, who wrote _Gallows Orchard_, and another friend of Peggy’s, Wm. Seabrook’s wife, barged in on us the other day on the way to Cuernavaca, and loaned me the book to read. Claire has just finished her second novel, which Hal Smith is bringing out in May. We had a great reconciliation and I’ve decided that I’m not the only one who has improved since our ancient misunderstandings. --/--/

401: TO SOLOMON GRUNBERG

_Mixcoac_ _April 20th_

Dear Mony: Just a hasty note in the fever of packing and final arrangements.... My plans for staying in Mexico have been completely reversed by a suit against the estate which may cut me off from any income for years. Since I’m having to depend even now entirely on loans from my stepmother’s salary the only thing possible to do is return to Chagrin Falls and try to work some of it out in service to the organization, several branches of which are approaching bankruptcy. Not a very happy prospect....

Am sailing for NY on the _Orizaba_ from Vera Cruz on the 24th. Shall probably land in NY without a penny. Could you send me a small loan of some kind c/o Hotel Lafayette, University Place & 11th St.? It would be wonderful if you could happen to be in NY sometime during the three or four days I hope to be there before going into my middle western exile. This crash has prevented my collecting the cutter as yet, but I hope to get it before leaving if I have anything like the pesos to pay the duty charges. If not it may come back to you. I’ve had an awful time all round lately ... will tell you later. -- -- -- --

402: TO MORTON DAUWEN ZABEL

_Mixcoac, DF_ _April 20th, 1932_

Dear Morton Zabel: I’ve suddenly been called north on account of business. Sailing immediately and probably won’t return to Mexico. Will you kindly have my subscription address [changed] to my permanent residence; _Box 604, Chagrin Falls, Ohio_....

About a month ago I sent you a poem, for possible use in _Poetry_, but have not as yet heard from you about it. The letter may have gone astray for all I know, as service isn’t any too reliable here.[70]

I hope I may hear from you soon after my arrival in Ohio. -- -- -- --

403: TO _Contempo_[71]

_Mixcoac, Mexico_ _April 20, 1932_

Dear Contempo: Delighted to hear that you like the “Bacardi” poem and are using it.

I’m leaving for the States in a few days and can’t write you a decent response at the moment. But I hope you meant what you said about sending me _Contempo_ regularly. And I should like to do reviews when I get settled in the north again.

Please address me from now on at Box 604, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where I shall probably be after May 10th.

P.S. I should love to review MacLeish’s _Conquistador_ for you if you haven’t already assigned it elsewhere.

404: TO HIS STEPMOTHER

_Mixcoac_ _April 22nd ’32_

Dear Bess: Pardon me for wiring Byron [Madden] about money, but so many difficulties came to a head at once here, and with myself weak from a fever and dysentery I had to use every way of impressing on you the urgency of my immediate needs. And I imagine that you may well have been too preoccupied to realize the situation here anyway--even in part.

Altogether I’ve had a terrible time lately. I can’t begin to write the details now in the finalities of packing. I leave for Vera Cruz tomorrow night and sail Sunday morning on the _Orizaba_ for New York. I was planning to return to Ohio even before the shocking news came about the W---- matter. But with that having happened I wouldn’t have thought of staying here another minute anyway. I may be able to be of some help to you this summer. Anyway I want to make the effort, especially since you must be quite crippled (at least at the Cottage) without Dorothy’s help.

You can’t imagine how difficult the Mexicans make it for any foreigners to remain here--comfortably. I love the country and the people (Indians) but certainly have had my fill of passport difficulties, servant problems and other complications for awhile. I have been not only ill--but frightened nearly out of my wits because I happened, in all innocence, to put my passport-renewal problem in the hands of a lawyer-crook. It’s all right; I have clearance papers; but it involved me in a lot of expense, consultations with innumerable people and just endless worry. Then at the last moment my servant got roaring drunk and left, and came back and shook the gate to its foundations, yelling threats against my life, terrorizing us for days, until we had to call on the American Embassy for special police service, etc., and so on. Do you wonder I’ve been anxious to get off as soon as possible. Thank God the lease on my house is already expired--and there can be no further complications that I know.

I hated to draw on you so heavily for money lately, but after all, I had no way of knowing how matters would turn out with the estate; and the expense of coming home now certainly seems justified in view of the possibility of economizing later on. There are many things highly important for us to discuss together, and besides that I am looking forward to seeing you and the rest of our friends and relatives again. I am bringing back a lot of very interesting things, some very beautiful, that you’ll enjoy seeing, I’m sure.

A case of books had to be sent collect (Wells Fargo) direct to the factory. Please be on the watch for it. The other things are all in a large hamper which will go with me on the boat and will be expressed to the factory later on from New York. I’ll be in New York a couple of days as I simply must see some of my old friends after so long a time. I’ll telephone you on the first night of my arrival around 10 o’clock when rates are reduced.

Please give my love to poor little Dorothy. I haven’t had a moment to write to anyone lately or I should have written her long ago. Had to spend all day yesterday running around trying to get the telegraphed money cashed. Wasn’t your fault, nor mine. Peggy nearly went crazy with hers, sent from her former husband, too. The telegraph office paid us off in six hundred and some odd “Tostons” (about like getting it all in dimes) and neither the Ward Line office nor the official Banco de Mexico would accept them.... It seems there’s a law against paying out any such currency beyond a certain small amount. But how should we know--and besides what does a government agency like the telegraph here mean by paying you in currency which the government itself, through its own official bank, turns around and refuses! We finally had to arrange a special interview with the president of the bank himself. I was all ready to complain to the embassy. So you see how slow things move here and what incessant obstacles one has to fight for the simplest sort of transactions. It certainly has about made a nervous wreck of me. But I’ll rest up on the boat.

405: TO MRS. T. W. SIMPSON

(Postcard)

[_Havana, Cuba_] [_April 26, 1932_]

Off here for a few hours on my way north. Will write you soon. Am going back to Cleveland to help in the business crisis. Permanent address--Box 604, Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS

(_Numbers are those of the letters_)

----: 55, 103, 105, 121, 136, 245, 250, 267, 381, 386

---- and ----: 242, 273, 292, 300

Anderson, Sherwood: 54, 85

Baird, Peggy: 376, 377, 383, 385, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392

Baird, Peggy and Malcolm Cowley: 295

Brown, Slater: 216, 294, 298, 303, 323, 373

Bubb, Charles C.: 15

_Contempo_: 403

Cowley, Malcolm: 225, 237, 310, 311, 319, 328, 362, 371, 384, 397

Cowley, Malcolm and Peggy Baird: 255

Crosby, Caresse: 329, 331, 332, 333, 335, 396

Crosby, Harry and Caresse: 330

Dietz, Lorna: 334, 354, 368

Father (Clarence A. Crane): 3, 4, 8, 9, 173, 219, 221, 283, 286, 288, 291, 306, 307

Frank, Waldo: 119, 131, 137, 140, 182, 188, 211, 212, 213, 217, 228, 236, 244, 247, 248, 249, 253, 254, 257, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 272, 296, 299, 304, 315, 320, 327, 337, 355, 363

Grandmother (Elizabeth B. Hart): 1, 2, 165, 209, 226, 230

Grunberg, Solomon: 346, 352, 375, 387, 395, 399, 401

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: 344

Josephson, Matthew: 40, 57

Kahn, Otto H.: 222, 235, 289

Lachaise, Gaston: 231

Lachaise, Isabel and Gaston: 171, 258

Loveman, Samuel: 290, 297, 312, 313, 316, 322, 351, 353, 358, 369, 378, 394, 398, 400

Moe, Henry Allen: 356

Mother (Grace Hart Crane): 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 146, 151, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 162, 163, 169, 174, 175, 176, 177, 180, 181, 183, 184, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 197, 198, 199, 201, 202, 205, 206, 207, 208, 210, 223, 227, 229, 238, 240, 243, 246, 251, 256, 268, 271, 278, 284

Munson, Gorham B,: 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 88, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120, 122, 124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 132, 135, 138, 161, 167, 168, 172, 185, 195, 196, 233, 234, 239, 302

Porter, Katherine Anne: 359, 360, 361, 366

Rickword, Edgell: 270

Rodman, Selden: 341, 347, 365

Rosenfeld, Paul: 338

Rychtarik, Charlotte: 141, 143, 149, 156, 166, 170, 264, 309, 336

Rychtarik, Charlotte and Richard: 139, 145, 152, 179, 200, 203, 214, 215, 220, 224, 232, 241, 293, 308, 321, 357, 374

Rychtarik, Richard: 147

Schneider, Isidor: 274, 301, 325, 34 350

Schneider, Isidor and Helen: 305

Seltzer, Thomas: 204

Simpson, Mrs. T. W.: 266, 287, 405

Sommer, William: 144, 218

Stein, Gertrude: 318, 324

Stella, Joseph: 317

Stepmother (Bessie M. Hise): 379, 382, 393, 404

Stieglitz, Alfred: 142, 148, 150, 154, 160, 164

Tate, Allen: 98, 100, 104, 130, 133, 134, 178, 269, 275, 276, 277, 279, 280, 281, 282, 326, 343, 345

Walton, Eda Lou: 340, 380

Wiegand, Charmion: 28, 74, 98, 107, 113, 127, 314

Weinstock, Herbert: 339

Winters, Yvor: 285

Wright, William: 14, 21, 22, 24, 37, 38, 78, 87, 89, 93, 123, 252, 348, 349, 367, 370

Zabel, Morton Dauwen: 364, 372, 402

INDEX

(Asterisks denote works of Hart Crane)

“Abbott, Dorian” (J. B. Wheelwright), 125

_Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years_ (Sandburg), 272

_Aeneid, The_ (Virgil), 309

Aeschylus, 235

Aesop, 58

_Aesthete, 1925_, 196

*“Again” (“The Wine Menagerie”), 255

Aiken, Conrad, 69, 294 f.

Akron, Ohio, 23 ff.

Alden, Priscilla, 306

Aldington, Richard, 12, 341

_All God’s Chillun Got Wings_ (O’Neill), 177

Alleghany College, xi

_American, The_ (James), 41

_American Caravan, The_, 291

*“America’s Plutonic Ecstasies,” 120, 126

_Anarchism Is Not Enough_ (Riding), 321

Anderson, Margaret, 10, 30, 45 ff., 56-57, 61, 64, 70, 174

Anderson, Sherwood, 23, 26 ff., 34 ff., 37-38, 40, 47, 53, 56, 58 f., 62, 65-66, 69, 73, 75, 83 ff., 95 ff., 103, 187, 208, 287, 364

_Anthology of Magazine Verse_ (ed. Braithwaite), 104

Annunzio, d’, Gabriele, 41

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 84 f.

Apuleius, 36

Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 313

Aragon, Louis, 84

Aristotle, 139, 311

_Atlantic Monthly_, 75

*“Atlantis,” 268, 270

_Atlantis in America_ (Lewis Spence), 255

*“At Melville’s Tomb,” 218, 259

“Ave Maria,” 242, 268, 291 ff., 305 f.

*“Bacardi Spreads the Eagle’s Wings,” 315, 410

Bach, J. S., 408

_Back to Methuselah_ (Shaw), 66, 104

Baird, Peggy, 232, 330, 376, 383, 393-394, 396, 403 f., 406 f., 409, 412

Barnes, Djuna, 28

Barney, Alice, 325

Barney, Nathalie Clifford, 325

Barrie, Sir James, 25

Barrymore, John, 38

_Bartholomew Fair_ (Jonson), 71

Bartók, Béla, 177

Baudelaire, Charles, 56, 58, 67, 88, 91, 115, 213, 358, 371

Bax, Arnold, 177

Beach, Rex, 73

Beals, Carleton, 404

Beardsley, Aubrey, 105

Beethoven, van, Ludwig, 109, 316

Benét, William Rose, 243, 324

Berners, Lord, 177

_Better Sort, The_ (James), 41

Biggers, Earl Derr, 5-6

Binet, Jean, 66

*“Black Tambourine,” 54, 58, 60, 63, 70, 72, 77

Blair, Mary, 195

Blake, William, 39, 88, 90, 100, 115, 132, 138, 176, 260, 288, 291, 294, 301, 322, 324, 364

Bloch, Ernest, 66, 78, 82, 129, 177

_Blue Juniata_ (Cowley), 330-331, 343

Blume, Peter, 349

Bodenheim, Maxwell, 9, 75, 295

Boni, Albert and Charles, 254

Boni and Liveright, 14, 136

Boone, Daniel, 307

*“Bottom of the Sea Is Cruel, The” (“Voyages I”), 69, 96, 99

Boyd, Ernest, 75, 243, 394

Boyle, Kay, 321, 335, 341, 406

Bradley, F. H., 322

Brahms, Johannes, 316

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 104

Brancusi, Constantin, 70

Braque, Georges, 177

Brenner, Anita, 399, 404

Breughel, 314

*_Bridge, The_, vii, ix f., xviii, 118, 119-120, 123, 124-125, 127 f., 135 ff., 145, 147, 153, 178, 184, 191 f., 201, 222-223, 231-233, 236, 240-242, 248 ff., 254 f., 259, 261 f., 265, 267 f., 268-269, 269-270, 271 f., 273, 274-275, 276 ff., 280, 285, 293, 296 f., 302 f., 304-308, 309 f., 318, 322, 325, 334 ff., 338 f., 342, 343-349, 350 ff., 364, 366, 374

*“Bridge of Estador, The,” 55, 55n., 182

Brody, Alter, 40

*“Broken Tower, The,” viii, x, 396, 401, 404, 406, 410

Brookhaven, Long Island, 20 f.

Brooklyn Bridge, ix f., 181, 183, 232, 240, 261, 270, 283, 307, 334, 363

*“Brooklyn Bridge, To,” 267, 347

Brooklyn Heights, 181 ff.

Brooks, Charles S., 13, 56

Brooks, Mrs. Charles S., 13

Brooks, Van Wyck, 28, 47, 178, 195, 291

_Broom_, 76, 95, 101, 103 f., 106, 113, 117 ff., 123, 154 f., 161 f., 185

_Brothers Karamazov, The_ (Dostoievsky), 49 f.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 67

Brown, John, 61 f., 241

Brown, (William) Slater, vi, 85, 133 ff., 155 ff., 160 ff., 167, 197, 205 f., 208 f., 214, 217, 226, 244, 268, 290, 293, 303, 321, 355, 379, 383

_Bruno’s Weekly_, xvii

Bullus, Leonard, 292

Burchfield, Charles, 56

Burke, Kenneth, 36, 63, 70, 99, 103-104, 106, 108, 135, 155, 158, 160, 162, 166, 185, 218, 388

Burleson, Albert S. (_Postmaster General_), 29, 47

Butler, Samuel, 98-99

Bynner, Witter, 37, 394

Byron, Lord, 67

Cabell, James Branch, 105, 108

_Cabinet of Dr. Caligari_, 65

_Calendar, The_, 259, 281

Calhoun, Alice, 14-15, 311

California, 311 ff.

Calles, Plutarco, 293, 319

Camino, Leon Felipe, 372 f.

Campbell, Roy, 342

Canby, Henry Seidel, 345

Candee, Harry, 29-30, 32, 43, 141

Cannan, Gilbert, 85

*“Cape Hatteras,” 308, 344 ff.

Casanova, 372-373

Casella, Alfredo, 177

Castaneda, Dr. Maximiliano, 368

Catel, Jean, 194 f.

Catullus, 29, 33

Cavalcanti, Guido, 67

Cazes, Hazel, 369

Cervantes Saavedra, de, Miguel, 17

Cezanne, Paul, 86, 342

Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 359 ff.

Chaplin, Charlie, 65 f., 68 f., 85, 149-150, 170, 311, 326

*“Chaplinesque,” 65 f., 68 ff., 74, 85, 195, 313

Chapman, George--_Homer_, 287

_Chartreuse de Parme, La_ (Stendhal), 39, 64

Chase, William Merritt, 7

Chatterton, Thomas, 67

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 17, 78, 299

Chekhov, Anton, 39

Chirico, de, Giorgio, 87, 251

Chopin, Frédéric, 59

Christian Science, xvii, 3, 12, 15-16, 33-34, 161, 180, 280

_City Block_ (Frank), 124, 128, 130, 132-133

Clarke, Donald, 292

Cleveland, Ohio, xvii, 30 ff., 45 ff.

Cleveland _Plain Dealer_, 12

Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 30

Cocteau, Jean, 72, 86

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 67, 215, 314, 343, 353

*_Collected Poems of Hart Crane, The_, v

Collioure, France, 339 ff.

Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, 181 ff.

Columbia University, 19-20, 21

Columbus, Christopher, 232, 234, 240 f., 268, 305

Colum, Mary, 6 f.

Colum, Padraic, 6 f., 14, 51, 63, 95, 149

_Commedia_ (Dante), 356

Comstock, Anthony, 30

Conrad, Joseph, 41, 187

_Conquistador_ (MacLeish), 375, 411

_Contact_, 51, 53

_Contempo_, 394

Coolidge, Calvin, 365

Copeau, Jacques, 85, 178

Copland, Aaron, 195

*Cortez-Montezuma epic, 276, 390, 405

Coué, Emile, 109

_Counterfeiters, The_ (Gide), 316, 322

Cowley, Malcolm, vi, 42, 75, 84 f., 97, 113, 135, 155, 160-161, 162, 166, 182, 184, 231 n., 244, 252, 256, 294, 321, 325, 327, 340, 384, 388, 393, 400

Craig, Gordon, 66-67

Crane, Bessie (aunt), 3

Crane, Bessie M. (stepmother, II), _see_ Hise, Bessie M.

Crane, Clarence Arthur (father), x-xii, xvii f., 3, 9, 18, 20-21, 22 f., 27 f., 32 f., 35, 41, 45, 48, 50-51, 55, 57, 82, 108, 167 f., 173-174, 175, 179 ff., 186, 207 f., 214, 219 n., 226, 284, 292, 296-297, 337 f., 360, 363 ff., 376-377, 378 f., 402-403, 404

Crane, Frances (stepmother, I), 173, 283-284

Crane, Grace Hart (mother), vi, x, xvii, 3, 7 f., 19, 24, 32, 33-34, 36, 48 f., 57, 82, 107-108, 110, 134, 140-141,

143, 153 f., 162, 169, 212, 214, 219, 226-227, 231, 234 f., 250, 252, 256, 276, 278, 303-304, 316, 320-321, 327, 337-338

Crevel, René, 341

_Crime and Punishment_ (Dostoievsky), 46

_Criterion, The_, 218, 308

_Critique of Humanism, The_ (ed. C. H. Grattan), 352, 354

_Crome Yellow_ (A. Huxley), 82

Crosby, Caresse, xviii, 340, 342, 348

Crosby, Harry, xviii, 335 f., 338-339, 340, 342, 344, 346, 348, 405

*“C 33,” xvii

Cummings, Anne, 310-311, 324

Cummings, E. E., 85, 96, 108, 120, 133, 167, 182, 213, 251, 307, 310-311, 321, 324, 349, 354 f., 375

Curtis, Charles, 188, 198, 224, 226, 243, 252, 284

*“Cutty Sark,” 268, 283, 294, 307, 346

Dadaism, 52, 70, 72

Daly, James, 123

Damon, S. Foster, 100

*“Dance, The,” 288-289, 292, 307

Dante Alighieri, ix, 67

_Dark Mother, The_ (Frank), 47

Dasburg, Andrew, 408

Davenport, Russell, 366

Davidson, Donald, 294

Davies, Sir John, 213

Debussy, Claude, 78, 108

_Decline of the West, The_ (Spengler), 267

Deming, Zell Hart (aunt), 14, 188, 226

_Democratic Vistas_ (Whitman), 354

Derain, Andre, 87, 90

_Destinations_ (Munson), 178, 323-324

Deutsch, Babette, 63

_Dial, The_, 27, 32, 35 f., 36, 40, 42 f., 47, 54, 55 f., 65, 70, 73, 75, 92, 94, 97, 101, 103, 115, 117 f., 124, 133, 135, 136-137, 154, 160, 162, 178, 180, 191, 218, 220, 289, 292

Dickinson, Emily, 213, 324

Dietz, Howard, 325

Dietz, Lorna, 370

D’Indy, Vincent, 129

Dio Cassius, 32

Dionysios, 91

_Dr. Transit_ (Schneider), 231, 287

Doherty, Mary, 393

Don Quixote, 261

_Don Quixote_ (Cervantes), 263

Donne, John, 25, 66 ff., 71, 73, 77, 86, 88, 176, 213, 301

Dos Passos, John, 213, 324, 366

Dostoievsky, Feodor, 46 f., 50, 52-53

_Double Dealer, The_, 58 f., 61 f., 66, 74, 87 f., 104, 115, 129

Douglas, Lord Alfred, 43

Drayton, Michael, 78, 86, 286

Dreiser, Theodore, 27, 69, 324

Duchamp, Marcel, 52, 177

_Duchess of Malfi, The_ (Webster), 90

Duncan, Isadora, 108 f., 322

Durieux, Caroline and Pierre, 404

Eames, Claire, 174

East High School, Cleveland, xvii, 4, 359

Eastman, Max, 388

_Egoist, The_, 91

Einstein, Albert, 311

El Greco, 114, 267, 333

_El Universal_, 373

Eliot, T. S., 24, 26, 28, 34, 36, 44, 66, 86, 88, 90, 102, 104 f., 114-115, 117 f., 121, 123, 261, 308, 311, 313, 323, 345, 351, 355 f., 359, 372

Ely, 3, 14

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 73

*“Emily Dickinson, To,” 277

_Enormous Room, The_ (Cummings), 96 f., 133

Enters, Angna, 349

*“Episode of Hands,” 37, 38-39, 40

Epstein, Jacob, 46, 95

_Erik Dorn_ (Hecht), 66, 68 ff., 73

Estrada, Genaro, 372

Evans, Walker, 347

_Excelsior_, 373

_Faust_ (Goethe), 94

*“Faustus and Helen, For the Marriage of,” 87, 89, 92-93, 96, 98, 100-101, 102 f., 113 ff., 120-121, 123-124, 125, 127 ff., 131, 135-136, 140, 154, 178, 181, 184, 195, 301

Fawcett, James Waldo, 24-25, 27

Fernandez, Ramon, 319, 322 f.

Field, Eugene, 29

Fielding, Henry, 300

Fisher, William Murrell, 107, 161 ff., 167

Fitts, Norman, 119 f., 126

Fitzgerald, Eleanor, 224, 303, 311, 354

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 78

_Five Seasons, The_ (Phelps Putnam), 384, 393, 399

Flaubert, Gustave, 75

Fletcher, Herbert, 25-26, 63

Fletcher, John Gould, 63, 295

_Fleurs du Mal, Les_ (Baudelaire), 33

Florida land boom, 209-210

_Flowering Judas_ (Porter), 373

Flynn, Bina, 216 f., 248, 252

Ford, Ford Madox, 285, 341

_Fortune_, 357 ff.

_42nd Parallel_ (Dos Passos), 366

Frank, Thomas, 263

Frank, Waldo, vii, 26-27, 28, 34-35, 95 f., 98-99, 104, 107 f., 113, 118 f., 124, 128 ff., 132-133, 136 f., 140 f., 145, 149 f., 154 f., 162, 170, 178, 186 f., 193, 195 f., 199 f., 203, 206, 208, 218-219, 223 ff., 236, 251 f., 255 f., 269 f., 278, 284, 291, 312, 322 ff., 370, 400

Freeman, G. W., 204, 211

_Freeman, The_, 40, 58-59, 125

Freud, Sigmund, 268

Freytag-Loringhoven, von, Baroness Elsa, 23, 30, 52, 56, 62

_From Ritual to Romance_ (Jessie L. Weston), 314

Friedman, Dr. Paul, viii

Frost, Robert, 17, 27

_Fugitive, The_, 88, 123, 155, 161

_Fyodor Dostoyevsky_ (J. Middleton Murry), 53

Gale, Zona, 66

Garden, Mary, 65

*“Garden Abstract,” 31, 37, 39 f., 51-52

_Gargoyle_, 70, 79-80

Garman, Douglas, 281

Garrettsville, Ohio, xvii

Gauguin, Paul, 29, 36, 55, 385

Gide, André, 66, 85, 294, 317, 336

Gilmore, Louis, 290

Goethe, 240

Gogh, van, Vincent, 55

Gogol, Nikolai, 34

Gold, Michael, 357

_Golden Ass, The_ (Apuleius), 44

Goldman, Emma, 341

Gordon (Tate), Caroline, 225 f., 245-247, 283, 294, 341 ff.

Gorman, Herbert, 295

Gourmont, de, Rémy, 66, 73, 78 f., 123 _Marginalia_ on Poe and Baudelaire, 64

Goya, Francisco, 114

_Graechische Vasenmalerei_ (Ernst Buschor), 116

Grand Cayman, West Indies, 257-258, 264-266, 293

_Grandmothers, The_ (Wescott), 316

Graves, Robert, 333

Gregory, Alyse, 136, 160

Green, Sonia, 187

Greenberg, Samuel B., 162-163

Grey, Zane, 73

Gris, Juan, 341

Grosz, George, 87

Grunberg, Solomon, 331

_Guardian, The_, 215, 218

Guest, Edgar A., 73

Guggenheim Fellowship, xviii, 358, 365, 367, 374

Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch, 174, 298

Habicht, Charmion. _See_ Wiegand, Charmion

Habicht, Hermann, 22, 131, 180

Hackett, Francis, 28

Hale, William Harlan, 357, 375

_Hamlet of A. MacLeish, The_, 343

Hampden, Walter, 44-45

_Harbor, The_ (Ernest Poole), 256

*“Harbor Dawn, The,” 283, 306

Harcourt, Brace, 155, 213

Hardy, Thomas, 289, 300, 357

_Harkness Hoot, The_, 356-357

Harris, Charles, 121

Harris, Frank, 50

Hart, Clinton (grandfather), 249

_Hart Crane_ (Philip Horton), v, 240 n.

Hart, Elizabeth Belden (grandmother), xvii f., 10, 14, 23 f., 34, 140, 162 ff., 188, 214, 219, 224 f., 227, 233, 243, 270, 303, 321, 328, 337

Harte, Bret, 23

Hartley, Marsden, 27, 30, 75, 342, 404, 408

Havana, Cuba, 10, 251, 275, 412

Hays, Arthur Garfield, 330

Heap, Jane, 46 f., 61, 64, 100, 224

Hecht, 69 f., 104

Heine, Heinrich, 59, 71, 117

_Heliogabalus_ (Mencken & Nathan), 32

Helton, Roy, 373

Hemingway, Ernest, 287 f., 294

Hertha, 305

_Hints to Pilgrims_ (Charles S. Brooks), 56

Hise, Bessie M. (stepmother, II), 364, 377, 378 f., 410

_History of American Poetry, A_ (Gregory and Zaturenska), v

_History of Ferdinand and Isabella_ (W. H. Prescott), 235

Hoboken, New Jersey, 286

Hofmann, Josef, 177

Hollywood, California, 324-325

Homer, 120

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 317, 319, 340, 359

Hoppé, E. O., 30

_Hound & Horn_, The, 352

Howells, William Dean, 47

Huebsch, B. W., 85, 96-97, 115, 171 f., 175

*“Hurricane, The,” 316, 363

Huxley, Aldous, 72, 90

Huysmans, Joris Karl, 69, 78

Ibsen, Henrik, 9

_Idols Behind Altars_ (Brenner), 372

_Imperial Purple_ (Saltus), 32, 49

_Iliad, The_ (Homer), 81

_In Our Time_ (Hemingway), 219

_In the American Grain_ (Williams), 277-278

*“Indiana,” 307, 345, 357-358

_Instigations_ (Pound), 51

*“Interludium,” 166

_International Studio_, 30

Isle of Pines, Cuba, vii, xvii f., 10, 151 ff., 210, 234, 248-249, 251 ff., 293

Jacobs, S. A., 201, 202-203, 205

James, Henry, 17, 41, 90, 106

Jammes, Francis, 104

Jenkins, Sue, 135, 174, 182, 197, 205, 209, 217, 262, 384

Jimenez, Juan Ramon, 187, 212

_John Brown_ (Oswald Garrison Villard), 61

Jolas, Eugene, 293 f., 334, 336, 338, 341

Jolson, Al, 32, 290

Jones, Robert Edmond, 166, 177

Jonson, Ben, 71, 78, 88, 129

Jordan, Virgil, 53

Josephson, Hannah, 63, 330

Josephson, Matthew, 23 f., 26 f., 35, 37, 48, 63, 64-65, 71 f., 74-75, 78-79, 84 f., 87, 95-96, 97, 100 ff., 104, 105-106, 113 f., 118 ff., 135, 162, 166, 285, 384

_Journal of First Voyage to America_ (Columbus), 234 f.

Joyce, James, 47, 58, 61, 66, 69, 94 f., 99, 104 f., 108, 288

_Judge, The_ (Rebecca West), 102

_Jurgen_ (Cabell), 73, 366

Kahn, Otto H., xviii, 211, 225, 227, 232 f., 247 f., 250, 254, 259, 262 ff., 267, 274, 286, 310, 321, 351

Kafka, Franz, viii

Keats, John, 67, 353

_Kid, The_ (Charlie Chaplin), 65, 68 f.

*“Kidd’s Cove” (“O Carib Isle”), 259

King, Clinton, 394, 399 ff.

Kirkham, Hall, 292

Kling, Joseph, 25, 31-32

Knopf, Alfred A., 26, 125

Kreymborg, Alfred, 194 f., 244, 291

Kunitz, Stanley J., 353

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 107

Lachaise, Gaston, 135, 149, 159, 170, 205, 252, 258

Lachaise, Isabel, 159, 205, 252, 258

*“Lachrymae Christi,” 183

_Ladies Home Journal_, 75

Laforgue, Jules, 45, 67, 71, 85 f., 88, 90, 104, 123, 163, 261, 282

Landor, Walter Savage, 39, 73

Larbaud, Valery, 95, 294, 336

Lasky, Jesse, 325

Laukhuff, Richard, 12, 23, 277, 280

Laurencin, Marie, 87

Lawrence, D. H., 17, 52, 63, 390, 395

_Leaves of Grass_ (Whitman), 109

LeBlanc, Georgette, 174

_Leda_ (Huxley), 44

Leffingwell, 167

Leonardo da Vinci, 300

Lescaze, William, 56, 62-63, 66-67, 70, 77, 85, 91 f., 104

_Letters of Henry James, The_, 41

Lewis (Winters), Janet, 313

Lewis, Sinclair, 66

Lewis, Wyndham, 55, 196, 313, 319, 322 f.

_Liberator, The_, 31, 91

Light, James, 155, 166, 174, 213-214, 215, 224, 262, 267

Light, Sue. _See_ Jenkins, Sue

_Limbo_ (Huxley), 41

Lincoln, Abraham, 27

Lindsay, Vachel, 7, 295

Li Po, 67

_Literary Digest_, 68

_Little Mexico_ (Spratling), 388, 404

_Little Review, The_, 10, 12, 16-17, 18, 20-21, 23 f., 27 f., 30, 45-46, 47, 51, 56, 61, 64, 68, 70, 75, 117, 126, 191

Liveright, Horace, 125, 128, 171, 206, 218, 220, 254, 259, 262-263, 281, 292, 296, 340

_Lives of the Caesars_ (Suetonius), 49

*“Locations des Pierrots,” 87

Loeb, Harold, 113

London, 332-333, 338, 341

London _Times_, 295

Long, Haniel, 63

_Look Homeward, Angel_ (Wolfe), 375

Los Angeles, California, 314-315

Lovecraft, Howard, 187

Lovell, Wheeler, 267

Loveman, Samuel, x, 91, 100, 104, 106, 187 f., 190-191, 200, 201-202, 206, 331

_Love of Three Kings, The_ (Italo Montemezzi), 65

Lowell, Amy, 26, 89, 125

Lowenfels, Walter, 341

McAlmon, Robert, 53, 80

Macaulay Company, 291

MacCown, Eugene, 341

McFee, William, 256

Macgowan, Kenneth, 166

_Machinery_, 167

Mackenzie, Compton, 52

MacLeish, Archibald, 285, 294, 351, 357, 575

McPherson, Aimee, 314-315, 322

Macy, John, 105

Madden, N. Byron (uncle), 15, 411

Maddow, Ben, 393

Maeterlinck, Maurice, 174

_Magellan_ (A. S. Hildebrand), 235

Maillol, Aristide, 177

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 78

_Man Who Died, The_ (D. H. Lawrence), 395

*“Mango Tree, The,” 254 f., 259

Mann, Klaus, 341

_Many Marriages_ (S. Anderson), 103

_Marching Men_ (S. Anderson), 56

_Maria Chapdelaine_ (Louis Hémon), 81

Marichalar, Antonio, 313-314

Marin, John, 102, 177, 349

Marks, Harry L., 344

Marlowe, Christopher, 25, 67, 71, 86, 88, 300, 353

Marseille, France, 342 ff.

Martinique, West Indies, 310

_Masses, The_, 91

Massis, Henri, 313

Masters, Edgar Lee, 28, 295

Matisse, Henry, 87, 171

Maugham, W. Somerset, 29

Maupassant, de, Guy, 24

Maurras, Charles, 313

_Measure, The_, 64

Meleager, 100

Melville, Herman, 252, 331

Mencken, H. L., 26, 30, 32, 388 f.

_Menorah Journal, The_, 359

_Merchant of Venice, The_ (Shakespeare), 44-45

_Mercure de France_, 194

_Messages_ (Fernandez), 317, 319

_Mexican Maze_ (Beals), 380

Mexico, xviii, 368 ff.

Mexico (Stuart Chase), 380 f.

Michelangelo, 114

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 67-68

Milton, John, 67, 384

Minns, Hervey W., 30, 46, 52, 54

Mitchell, Stewart, 182, 313, 321

_Moby Dick_ (Melville), 86, 258, 260, 404-405

_Modernist, The_, 22 f., 24-25, 27

Moe, Henry Allen, 389

Monroe, Harriet, 294, 374, 410 n.

Montéllano, 373

Moody, William Vaughn, 89

_Moon and Sixpence, The_ (Maugham), 29

Moore, George, 354

Moore, Marianne, 37, 85, 194 f., 215, 218, 220, 224, 255, 259, 275, 289 f., 294, 324

Moore, Thomas, 67

Morris, William, 333

Mumford, Lewis, 195, 366

Munson, Elizabeth, vi, 126, 133, 143-144, 146 f., 155, 166, 180, 184

Munson, Gorham, vi f., ix, 85, 88, 94 f., 97, 101, 106 ff., 117, 119, 127, 130 ff., 143-144, 146 f., 153-154, 158, 171 f., 176, 178, 180, 182, 184 ff., 201, 213 f., 224, 251, 270 f., 273-274, 275, 282, 298, 300, 330, 335, 353, 384, 394

Murry, J. Middleton, 75

*“My Grandmother’s Love Letters,” 22 f., 25 f., 32, 37, 39

_My Heart and My Flesh_ (Elizabeth Madox Roberts), 314

Nagle, Edward, 135, 155 ff., 159 ff.

Nathan, George Jean, 32

_Nation, The_, 49, 58-59, 283

_Natural Philosophy of Love, The_ (de Gourmont, trans. Pound), 73, 91

Naumburg, Margaret, 150, 154, 162, 166, 336

Negri, Pola, 149

Nelson, Ernest, 75, 93

_New American Caravan, The_, 351

_New Criterion, The_, 240

_New Masses, The_, 240

New Orleans, Louisiana, 303, 326

_New Republic, The_, 28, 40, 58-59, 108, 219, 290, 292, 388, 394

New York City, xvii, 4 ff., 130 ff., 165 ff.

New York _Evening Journal_, 24

New York _Times_, 36, 100

Newton, Sir Isaac, 238

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 67, 75, 93, 99, 358

_Nigger of the Narcissus, The_ (Conrad), 41

_1919_ (John Dos Passos), 409

_1924_, 185, 191 f.

_Noa Noa_ (Paul Gauguin), 39

_Nouvelle Revue Française_, La, 78, 85

*“O Carib Isle,” 283, 293

O’Flaherty, Liam, 371

O’Keeffe, Georgia, 114, 177, 195, 349

O’Malley, Ernest, 371

O’Neill, Eugene, 155-156, 166, 170, 174, 177, 180, 184, 190, 193, 203, 208, 211-212, 214-215, 216, 218, 220 ff., 224 f., 240, 254, 258-259, 262-263, 270

Orage, A. R., 282

_Ordeal of Mark Twain, The_ (Van Wyck Brooks), 28

_Oresteia of Aeschylus, The_ (trans. G. Warr), 235

Ornstein, Leo, 271

_Others_, 7, 9

_Our America_ (Frank), 26-27, 28, 34-35, 131

_Pagan, The_, xvii, 7, 12, 23, 31

*“Paraphrase,” 195

Paris, 333 ff.

Parker, Dorothy, 322

Parrish, Maxfield, 21

_Parsifal_ (Wagner), 35

Pascal, Blaise, 48

*“Passage,” 215, 218, 259

*“Pastorale,” 64, 69, 71

Pater, Walter, 108, 117, 161

Patterson, New York, xviii, 208 ff., 224 ff., 277 ff.

_Pavannes and Divisions_ (Pound), 24

_Pelléas et Mélisande_ (Debussy), 339

*“Persuasion, A,” 58, 64

_Petits Poèmes en Prose, Les_ (Baudelaire), 274

_Petrouchka_ (Stravinsky), 200

Phibbs, Geoffrey, 340

Picabia, Francis, 64

Picasso, Pablo, 55, 87, 146, 171, 177, 336, 341

_Picture of Dorian Gray, The_ (Wilde), 38

Pindar, 129

Pinski, David, 47

_Plagued by the Nightingale_ (Boyle), 406

Plato, 17, 238

_Plato and Platonism_ (Pater), 161

_Plowshare, The_, 34

_Plumed Serpent, The_ (D. H. Lawrence), 236

Pocahontas, 232, 241, 305, 307

Poe, Edgar Allen, 67, 231, 278, 290, 331

_Poetry_ (Chicago), 25, 51, 289, 373 f., 410 n.

Poetry Society of America, 7

Pollard, Percival, 44

Polo, Marco, 242

_Poor White_ (S. Anderson), 47, 53

*“Porphyro in Akron,” 40, 42 f., 51, 64

Porter, Katherine Anne, 367, 370, 373, 377-378, 383

_Port of New York_ (Rosenfeld), 202

_Portrait of the Artist_ (Joyce), 99, 313

_Possessed_, The (Dostoievsky), 46 f., 49 f.

*“Possessions,” 176

Potamkin, Harry Alan, 240

Potapovitch, Stan, 8

Pound, Ezra, 28, 41, 44, 51, 54, 61 ff., 64, 66, 70, 86, 88, 96

*“Powhatan’s Daughter,” 305

Powitzki, Mrs., 286

Powys, John Cowper, 136

*“Praise for an Urn,” 93, 104, 259

_Principles of Literary Criticism_ (I. A. Richards), 314

Proust, Marcel, 66

Provincetown Theatre, 40, 174, 177, 214

_Psychoanalytic Quarterly_, viii

*“Quaker Hill,” 345, 347

Quinn, John, 47

Rabelais, 30, 36, 56

_Rahab_ (Waldo Frank), 98-99, 108

_Rainbow, The_ (D. H. Lawrence), 43

Ransom, John Crowe, 100, 289

Rauh, Ida, 28

Ravel, Maurice, 66, 108, 129, 139-140

Ray, Man, 52, 94-95

*“Recitative,” 161, 176

Reeck, Emil, 84, 97

_Re-discovery of America, The_ (Waldo Frank), 318-319, 322 f., 326, 335

Rembrandt, 54

_Renaissance, The_ (Pater), 161

_Revista de Occidente_, 313 n., 314

Rickword, Edgell, 259, 281, 333

Riding, Laura, 217, 291, 294, 321, 333 f., 341

_Rimbaud_ (E. Rickword), 283

Rimbaud, Arthur, 43, 45, 85, 162, 213, 252, 260 f., 270, 272, 317, 359, 374

*“River, The,” 303, 306-307

Rivera, Diego, 371

Robeson, Paul and Essie, 333

Robinson, Boardman, 54

Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 89, 93

Robson, Peggy, 400

Rodin, Auguste, 46

Roebling, Washington, 293-294

Romains, Jules, 24

Rorty, James, 244

Rosenfeld, Paul, 75, 77, 95, 97 f., 102, 105, 126, 166, 178, 193-194, 202, 224, 291 f.

_Rouge et le Noir, Le_ (Stendhal), 64

Rousseau, Henri, 177

Russell, Bertrand, 240

Rychtarik, Charlotte, 106, 144-145, 247, 364 f., 408

Rychtarik, Richard, 106, 131, 132-133, 139, 141, 144-145, 147, 160, 247, 364 f.

_Sacre du Printemps, Le_ (Stravinsky), 200

_Sacred Wood, The_ (Eliot), 71

Sáenz, Moisés, 370, 372

Salmon, André, 66

Saltus, Edgar, 29, 44, 106, 187

_Salvos_ (Frank), 178

Sandburg, Carl, 69

San Pedro, California, 315, 319-320

Santayana, George, 240

Saphier, William, 70

Satie, Erik, 66

_Saturday Evening Post, The_, 284, 345

_Saturday Review of Literature, The_, 345

_Satyricon_ (Petronius Arbiter), 44, 105

Schmitt, Carl, 4 ff., 8

Schneider, Isidor, 231, 281

Schoenberg, Arnold, 177

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 41

_Science and the Modern World_ (A. N. Whitehead), 235

_Scientific American, The_, 271

Scriabin, Alexander, 63, 109, 129

Seaver, Edwin, 185, 218

_Secession_, 82, 84 f., 88, 94 f., 97, 100 f., 103, 105 ff., 108, 117, 121, 123 ff., 154 f., 178, 185

_Second April_ (Millay), 6

_S4N_, 120, 126

Seiberling, F. H., 30

Seldes, Gilbert, 70, 103

Seligmann, Herbert J., 195, 285

Seltzer, Thomas, 206

Service, Robert W., 73

_Seven Arts, The_, 9

Seltzer, Thomas, 206

_Shadowland_, 61, 63, 75

Shakespeare, 67, 129, 289, 299 f.

Shelley, P. B., 67

*“Sherwood Anderson,” 59-60, 61 ff.

Simpson, Eyler, 395

Simpson, Lesley, 393, 399, 404

Simpson, Marion, 399

Simpson, Mrs. T. W. (“Aunt Sally”), 152, 248-249, 251 ff., 286

_Since Cézanne_ (Clive Bell), 96

Siqueros, David Alfaro, 384-385, 386-387, 388

Sistine Chapel, 305

Sitwell, Edith, 44

_1601_ (Mark Twain), 26, 28, 30

_Smart Set, The_, 10 n., 25, 34

Smith, Captain John, 306

Smith, Claire. _See_ Spencer, Claire

Smith, Elizabeth, 172-173

Smith, Harrison, 17, 19 f., 22, 128, 155-167, 180, 224, 334-335

_Sodome et Gomorrhe_ (Proust), 316, 322

Sommer, William, 54 ff., 58 ff., 71, 75, 78, 83, 86, 89-90, 92, 95, 98, 101 f., 105, 107, 113-114, 115, 119, 137, 233, 363-364

Soupault, Philippe, 104, 294, 336, 341

_South Wind_ (Norman Douglas), 280

Spencer, Claire, 12, 17, 19 f., 22, 136, 180, 409

Spencer, Jessie, 12 f.

Spencer, Pat, 12

Spengler, Oswald, 158, 259 f., 267, 285, 293, 313, 319, 322, 357, 366

Speyer, Leonora, 67

_Spoon River Anthology_ (Masters), 28

Spinoza, Baruch, 363

Spratling, William, 388, 401, 404

Springhorn, Carl, 63

*“Stark Major,” 117-118, 121, 124, 126

_Starved Rock_ (Masters), 28

Stein, Gertrude, 121 f., 167, 294, 311, 321, 336, 341

Stella, Joseph, 335, 339, 345

Stendhal, 64, 79

Stevens, Emily, 43

Stevens, Wallace, 25, 37, 53, 71, 88, 289

Stieglitz, Alfred, 95, 107, 113-114, 128 f., 141, 166 f., 170, 177, 195, 202

_Story of San Michele, The_ (Axel Munthe), 366

Strand, Paul, 195

Strauss, Richard, 108, 129

Stravinsky, 200, 238

_Success_, 284

_Sun Also Rises, The_ (Hemingway), 286-288

*“Sunday Morning Apples,” 96, 195

Swann’s Way (Marcel Proust), 263

Swinburne, A. C., 332

Synge, John M., 71

Szold, Bernadine, 341

Szymanowski, Karol, 177

Taggard, Genevieve, 353 f.

“Tampa Schooner” (“Repose of Rivers”), 259

_Taras Bulba_ (N. Gogol), 80-81

_Tarr_ (Wyndham Lewis), 69

Tate, Allen, 87, 100 ff., 104, 107, 118, 121 f., 126, 131, 185, 195, 197, 211, 215, 224 ff., 237, 239 f., 244, 245-249, 267 f., 270 f., 273, 284 f., 296, 313, 321, 341, 384

Tate, Caroline. _See_ Gordon, Caroline

Teagle, J. Walter, 357 ff., 363

Teasdale, Sara, 67

_Tempest, The_ (Shakespeare), 317

_Temptation of Anthony, The_ (Schneider), 287

Tennyson, Lord, 67

Tepoztlan, Mexico, 380-383, 388

_Tertium Organum_ (P. D. Ouspensky), 124

Théâtre du Vieux Colombier, 178

_Their Day in Court_ (Percival Pollard), 105

Thomas, Edward, 72, 88

Thomas, Harold, 6

Thompson, Basil, 59

Thompson, Francis, 67

Thompson, Robert, 400, 409

_Three Soldiers_ (Dos Passos), 68

_Through Traffic_ (Russell Davenport), 366

Tiberius, 52, 63

_Time and Western Man_ (Wyndham Lewis), 317, 319

Toomer, Jean, 149 f., 155, 162, 166 f., 185, 195, 214

Torrence, Ridgely, 289

_transition_, 294, 334

_Tristram Shandy_ (Laurence Sterne), 91

_Triumph of the Egg, The_ (S. Anderson), 65, 73, 76

_Trois Poèmes Juifs_ (Bloch), 82

_Trans-Atlantic Review_, The, 185

Tschaikowsky, P. I., 109

*“Tunnel, The,” 274-275, 278

Turbyfill, Mark, 125

Turner, Addie M., 224, 242, 245 ff.,

255, 286, 292 f., 354

Turner, W. J., 330

Twain, Mark, 17, 26 f., 30

Tzara, Tristan, 84

_Ulysses_ (Joyce), 62, 69, 71-73, 94 ff., 101, 127, 143 f., 288

_Un Coeur Virginal_ (R. de Gourmont), 73, 79 f.

Underwood, Wilbur, 43-44, 155, 325

Untermeyer, Louis, 104, 107 f., 118, 244

Vail, Lawrence, 335, 406

Valéry, Paul, 195, 113, 300, 325, 372

Valle, Rafael, 373

Van Doren, Mark, 285

_Vanity Fair_, 61, 94, 345

Van Vuren, Floyd, 350

*“Van Winkle,” 290, 306

Varèse, Edgar, 177, 334, 341

Vaughan, Henry, 88, 301

Vedanta, 242

Verlaine, Paul, 239

Vielé-Griffin, Francis, 104

Vildrac, Charles, 37, 45, 60

Villon, François, 36

Virgil, ix

*“Virginia,” 272

_Virgin Spain_ (Frank), 235-236, 242, 274

_Vision and Design_ (Roger Fry), 57

Vlaminck, de, Maurice, 87, 90

*“Voyages,” viii, 187, 192, 215, 218, 224, 244

Wagner, Richard, 108, 135

_Waldo Frank_ (Munson), 104, 115, 119, 125, 128 f.

Walton, Mrs., 10

Walton, Eda Lou, 366

_Wall Street Journal, The_, 324

Warren, Ohio, xvii, 292

Warren, Robert Penn, 321

Washington, D.C., 42 ff.

_Waste Land, The_ (Eliot), 105, 127, 271 f., 350 f.

_Way of All Flesh, The_ (Samuel Butler), 39

Webster, John, 25, 67, 71, 86, 88, 129

Wells, H. G., 319

Wescott, Glenway, 125, 166, 316, 341

Watson, J. Sibley, 103, 136-137

_Whale Ships and Whaling_ (G. F. Dow), 235

Wheeler, Monroe, 125

Wheelwright, John B., 125-126, 154

*_White Buildings_, xviii, 199 ff., 202-203, 205, 213 f., 218 ff., 254, 258-259, 262-263, 267, 270, 277, 280 f., 284 f., 290-291, 292, 294-295, 340, 345, 353

White, Hervey, 34 f.

Whitehead, A. N., 321

_White-Jacket_ (Melville), 235

Whitman, Walt, 67, 73, 128, 184, 223, 241, 261-262, 284, 290, 308, 352, 353-354

Wiegand, Charmion, 131, 180, 333-334

Wilcox, Walter, 10

Wilde, Oscar, 38, 44

Wilder, Thornton, viii, 357

Wilkinson, Marguerite, 67, 104

Williams, William Carlos, 37, 51, 53, 102, 105, 114, 278, 294, 324

Wilson, Edmund, 195, 298, 301

*“Wine Menagerie, The,” 218, 220

_Winesburg, Ohio_ (S. Anderson), 34, 47, 75

*“Winesburg, Ohio” (review), 23

Winters, Yvor, 278, 284 f., 288 f., 294, 313 f., 317, 321, 348, 352 ff.

Wise, Herbert, 316, 318, 322, 324, 326, 331

Wolfe, Thomas, 375

Woodstock, New York, xvii, 154, 156 ff.

Wright, Cuthbert, 100

_Wuthering Heights_ (Emily Brontë), 316-317

Wylie, Elinor, 243

_Yale Review, The_, 375

Yeats, W. B., 86, 88, 95, 300

_Young Visitors, The_ (Daisy Ashford), 25

Zabel, Monroe Dauwen, 410 n.

Zigrosser, Carl, 158

Zinsser, Dr. Hans, 368

Zwaska, Caesar, 27, 96

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Christian Science.

[2] A Christian Science practitioner.

[3] Mr. Crane’s employee.

[4] “My novel about the Isle of Pines has been somewhat blown to pieces by that blasting letter of yours. However I am busy thinking up plots for _Smart Set_ stories. You see, I want to make my literary work bring me in a living by the time I reach twenty-five and one cannot begin too soon.” (Letter to his mother, Oct. 6, 1917.)

[5] Crane’s landlady. “Mrs. Walton and I are working out movie scenarios. She has had considerable experience and is of great help to me.” (Letter to his mother, Oct. 8, 1917.)

[6] “Mother, when you arrive, I hope you will take up the Noyes dancing and enter the movies. You will find it fun I am sure, and I shall help you too. I am really getting a reputation for poetry and can find space now in at least two magazines for most of my better work.” (Letter to his mother, Oct. 26, 1917.)

[7] Postcard. On the reverse side, over a photograph of Brooklyn Bridge, Crane wrote: “Knowing your predilection for bridges, I send you this!”

[8] “Garden Abstract”; see Brom Weber, _Hart Crane_ (New York: Bodley Press, 1948), p. 76.

[9] “Garden Abstract.”

[10] “Episode of Hands”; see Weber, _op. cit._, p. 384.

[11] “Porphyro in Akron,” together with the comment: “The last is so far the only satisfactory part. I include the first two sections merely as hints for direction of the theme.” See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 89-90.

[12] See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 91-92.

[13] “Black Tambourine”; see Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 95-6.

[14] “The Bridge of Estador”; see Weber, _op. cit._, p. 385.

[15] See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 108-9.

[16] “The Bottom of the Sea Is Cruel.” Sent to Munson, Oct. 1, 1921.

[17] John Webster, _The Duchess of Malfi_, III, ii, 66-70.

[18] The rest of this letter has been lost.

[19] “Glad you really like my Silenus letter.” (Letter to Munson, June 28, 1922.)

[20] See Weber, _op. cit._, p. 176.

[21] “Sunday Morning Apples.”

[22] “The Bottom of the Sea Is Cruel.”

[23] It was accepted by Josephson.

[24] _The Double Dealer._

[25] _Secession._

[26] Sommer’s work was accepted by _The Dial_.

[27] “Faustus and Helen” III.

[28] “Stark Major.”

[29] See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 426-28.

[30] See Weber, _op. cit._, pp. 428-9.

[31] See Weber, _op. cit._, p. 224. For line 13, word 2, read: alternating.

[32] “Interludium.”

[33] E. E. Cummings.

[34] Crane had written his father a six-line letter on Oct. 20, 1923 requesting that his father telephone him on the occasion of his next New York visit. Mr. Clarence A. Crane regarded this letter as an aggressive unaffectionate note after three years of silence on Crane’s part (Letter, Oct. 27, 1923, C.A.C. to H.C.). Crane replied on Nov. 13th, informing his father of his trip to Woodstock. His father’s letter acknowledged that he viewed the Nov. 13th letter as a sign of friendship, and stated that he would be in New York sometime in 1924 (Letter, Dec. 10, 1923, C.A.C. to H.C.). On account of business expansion and relocation problems, it seemed doubtful that Crane’s father would be in New York as expected. Accordingly, in a letter of Jan. 7, 1924, he offered his son a travelling salesman’s job. After three years of satisfactory performance, his son would assume control of the wholesale portion of the business. This letter of Jan. 12, 1924, is Hart Crane’s response to the offer. His father responded sympathetically; he sent his son a check, stated that he would continue to provide financial assistance, recognized the sincerity and wisdom of his son’s choice, and attempted to demonstrate a similarity between them by asserting that he (like his son) was primarily interested in “accomplishment” rather than “money” (Letter, Jan. 15, 1924, C.A.C. to H.C.). Hart Crane viewed his father’s letter of the 15th as a “sincere and cordial document” (Letter, Jan. 19, 1924, H.C. to his mother).

[35] “And there have been other complications which may afford you the pleasure of vindictiveness against my ideas and standards....” (Letter, Feb. 14, 1924, H.C. to C.A.C.) Crane’s father resented this remark, and denied ever being able to derive pleasure from such an attitude to his son’s life and work. He explained his attitude as a failure to understand how his son could ever hope to support himself unless he took his advertising work seriously, and stated that he would be more sympathetic if his son were to regard his writing as an “avocation” rather than a “vocation,” a hobby similar to the pastime of “golf.” (Letter, Feb. 21, 1924, C.A.C. to H.C.) In the letters which follow Hart Crane’s rejection of a place in his father’s business, the elder Crane appears bitterly hurt that his son doesn’t want to work with him. At the same time, he makes it quite clear that he has a genuine affection for his son, and reiterates that he does not question the devotion to poetry, only its inability to provide financial returns. Later, in a letter of Nov. 25, 1925, he introduces the point that he believes his son to be interested in “pleasure,” rather than in following his own example of a man who “worked strenuously.”

[36] See Weber, _op. cit._, p. 395.

[37] An early version of “Voyages IV.”