Harold Hart Crane was born in Ohio in 1899. In 1923 he became a copy-writer in New York.

White Buildings, his first collection, appeared in 1926, and in 1930 his most famous work,

The Bridge, was published. A reaction against the pessimism in T. S. Eliot's

The Waste Land,

The Bridge was a love song to the myth of America and its optimism a much needed boon to post-Wall Street Crash America. Hart Crane committed suicide in 1932.