作者：LawrenceKramer(EDT)
出版社：FordhamUniversityPress
副标题：AnAnnotatedEdition
出版年：2011-3-7
页数：164
定价：USD37.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780823233076
内容简介
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Hart Crane's long poem The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. At first branded a noble failure by a few influential critics- a charge that became conventional wisdom-this panoramic work is now widely regarded as one of the finest achievements of twentieth-century American poetry. It unites mythology and modernity as a means of coming to terms with the promises, both kept and broken, of American experience.The Bridge is also very difficult. It is well loved but not well understood. Obscure and indirect allusions abound in it, some of them at surprisingly fine levels of detail. The many references to matters of everyday life in the 1920s may baffle or elude today's readers. The elaborate compound metaphors that distinguish Crane's style bring together diverse sources in ways that make it hard to say what, if anything, is going onin the text. The poem is replete with topical and geographical references that demand explication as well as identification. Many passages are simply incomprehensible without special knowledge, often special knowledge of a sort that is not readily available even today, when Google and Wikipedia are only a click away.Until now, there has been no single source to which a reader can go for help in understanding and enjoying Crane's vision. There has been no convenient guide to the poem's labyrinthine complexities and to its dense network of allusions-the thousands of strandsthat, Crane boasted, had to be sorted out, researched, and interwovento compose the work.This book is that guide. Its detailed and far-reaching annotations make The Bridge fully accessible, for the first time, to its readers, whether they are scholars, students, or simply lovers of poetry.
作者简介
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Lawrence Kramer is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, the editor of 19th-Century Music, and a prize- winning composer whose works have been performed internationally. He is the authorof eleven books on music, most recently including Why Classical Music Still Matters (2007), Interpreting Music (2010), and Expression and Truth: On the Music of Knowledge (2012). His string quartet movement “Clouds, Wind, Stars” won the 2103 Composers Concordance “Generations” Prize. Recent and forthcoming performances include Words on the Wind for voice and chamber ensemble (New York City, 2013), Pulsation for piano quartet (Ghent, Belgium, 2013), Songs and Silences to Poems by Wallace Stevens (London, 2013), and two string quartets, nos. 2 and 6 (New York City,2013).
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再看了一次保罗·斯特兰德改编惠特曼的《曼哈塔》，克兰描绘的布鲁克林大桥更接近TS艾略特，里面有种神秘主义的气质。
实在是不厌其烦地注释
数百页的文字中交织的是美洲大陆的历史民族兴衰变迁，现代性的遍及与对文学先辈的追问与回答。在感受到其磅礴宏大的同时，佶屈聱牙的选词与典故也没有让它过于疏离，私人情感也可以随处安放栖居。
读全集前最喜欢Atlantis，但读完后发现篇篇都爱。19世纪末20世纪初的东岸好像天然地承负着某种重大的历史时刻。夕阳下反射着冷峻阳光的钢铁建筑和新英格兰（新·英格兰）的自然风光（尤其是纽约非常为人称道的秋天）形成的反差，这个反差是阅读时最喜欢的地方。以及非常感谢如此详尽的注释，把Crane与艾略特、惠特曼、狄金森、浪漫主义象征主义诗人和古典时代的对话事无巨细地展现出来。不过想了想还是最喜欢At…
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