For 10 points, identify this American writer of the epic poem The Bridge.
A description of the angelus as "the bell-rope that gathers God at dawn" opens his "The Broken Tower." Early works like "Emblems of Conduct," "Voyages," and "At Melville's Tomb," strove to combat the pessimism of Modernism, although these works were preceded by the more solemn "Black Tambourine" and "Chaplinesque." Following his first volume of poetry White Buildings, his most famous work includes sections like "Ave Maria," "Quaker Hill," and "The River," as it conjures up characters like Isadora Duncan and Seneca, all the while celebrating a New York landmark. For 10 points, identify this American writer of the epic poem The Bridge.
A description of the angelus as "the bell-rope that gathers God at dawn" opens his "The Broken Tower.
Hart {Crane}