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The Poetry of Hart Crane: A Critical Study, by R. W. B. Lewis. Princeton University Press. 1967. $11.00.426 pp. Hart Crane: An Introduction to the Poetry, by Herbert A. Leibowitz. Columbia University Press. 1968. $8.25. 308 pp. Robber Rocks: Letters and Memories of Hart Crane, 1923-1932, by Susan Jenkins Brown. Wesleyan University Press. 1968. $5.95.176 pp. Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane, by John Unterecker. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1969. $15.00. 787 pp. When Hart Crane first arrived in New York from the midwest, right after Christmas of 1916, he was seventeen years old, alone, and he knew per- sonally only one man in the whole city - a young painter named Carl Schmitt. At the time of his suicide he was thirty-two; and during the intervening decade and a half of America's golden age of modern litera- ture he was in and out of New York dozens of times, knew personally everyone worth knowing, and - without any apparent intention - man- aged to lift his own life toward the shadowy realm of myth inhabited by the gigantic shades of Melville and Whitman, the American predecessors whom he most admired.

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