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Hart Crane

1899 - 1932

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Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet, best known for his only long poem, The Bridge. Inspired by T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote highly stylized modernist poetry, often noted for its complexity. He published poems in various literary magazines throughout his life, as well as two collections: White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hart Crane has received more than 670,667 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Hart Crane is the 4,194th most popular writer (down from 3,805th in 2019), the 5,714th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,143rd in 2019) and the 465th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hart Crane ranks 4,194 out of 5,755Before him are John Piper, Saadat Hasan Manto, Albert Ehrenstein, Alexander Tairov, Juan José Millás, and Hjalmar Bergman. After him are Petras Cvirka, Reiner Kunze, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Zhang Jie, Maeve Binchy, and Merab Kostava.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Hart Crane ranks 186Before him are Aldo Nadi, Masujiro Nishida, Dora Gerson, Väinö Kokkinen, Marcel Arland, and Wen Yiduo. After him are Gerald Moore, Piero Dusio, Eva Le Gallienne, Robin Hill, Roger Vitrac, and Hans Jacob Nielsen. Among people deceased in 1932, Hart Crane ranks 96Before him are Augusta, Lady Gregory, Ellen Churchill Semple, Edgard Colle, Charles Winckler, Dora Carrington, and Henry M. Leland. After him are Constantin Coandă, Carmen de Burgos, Giuseppe Vitali, John Walter Gregory, László Lukács, and Kliment Boyadzhiev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hart Crane ranks 5,714 out of 18,182Before him are John Piper (1946), Bill Monroe (1911), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Ernie Davis (1939), Freddie Prinze Jr. (1976), and Mary Wickes (1910). After him are Jessica Harper (1949), Mykelti Williamson (1960), Irwin Allen (1916), John Romita Sr. (1930), Frankie Laine (1913), and Harold Rainsford Stark (1880).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Hart Crane ranks 465Before him are Robert Leckie (1920), Lloyd Alexander (1924), David Crane (1957), Norman Spinrad (1940), Nicholas Pileggi (1933), and John Piper (1946). After him are Walter J. Ong (1912), John Gray (1951), Fran Lebowitz (1950), E. E. Smith (1890), William Gibson (1914), and Tracy Chevalier (1962).