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| | Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Hart Crane |
 | | Born in 1899 in Garrettsville, Ohio, Harold Hart Crane was a highly anxious and volatile child. |
 | | He began writing verse in his early teenage years, and though he never attended college, read regularly on his own, digesting the works of the Elizabethan dramatists and poetsShakespeare, Marlowe, and Donneand the nineteenth-century French poetsVildrac, Laforgue, and Rimbaud. |
 | | Hart Crane committed suicide in 1932, at the age of thirty-three, by jumping from the deck of a steamship sailing back to New York from Mexico. |
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