Hart Crane Manuscripts and Letters from Project REVEAL

A collection of manuscripts and letters written by American poet Hart Crane, digitized as part of Project REVEAL. The collection includes a corrected typescript and galley proofs for his epic poem 'The Bridge' (1930) and ten letters to family and fellow poet Samuel Loveman. The dataset was contributed by an author from the Texas Data Repository and last updated in March 2024.

Use Cases

• Textual analysis of poetic revisions based on the corrected typescript and galley proofs mentioned in the description
• Studying authorial correspondence and networks based on the collection of letters to family and a fellow poet
• Research on the influence of urban environments on modernist poetry based on the description of Crane's inspiration from New York City

Strengths

• Includes primary source materials such as a corrected typescript and galley proofs for a major epic poem
• Contains ten personal letters providing context to the poet's life and work
• Digitized as part of a named preservation project (Project REVEAL), suggesting a curated origin

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Digitized as part of Project REVEAL (Read and View English & American Literature)

Time Range

Materials relate to work from circa 1930, though the dataset itself was updated in 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-03-18 05:24:37; freshness should be verified

Geography

United States, with focus on New York City influence.