His first acclaimed poem, "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen," which appeared in the collection White Buildings, was intended as a response to Eliot's The Waste Land.
His first acclaimed poem, "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen," which appeared in the collection White Buildings, was intended as a response to Eliot's The Waste Land. He created homages to other great American writers with his references to Dickinson and Whitman in his most celebrated work and with the elegiac poem "At Melville's Tomb." FTP, identify this poet who offed himself in 1932 but managed to finish "The Bridge" before doing so.
His first acclaimed poem, "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen," which appeared in the collection White Buildings, was intended as a response to Eliot's The Waste Land.
Hart {Crane}