...John Hoffmeyer Abstract This essay develops a comparative account of Walter Benjamin’s and Hart Crane’s architectonic metaphors for text, culture, and history. I argue that theorist and poet alike employ parallel conceptual frameworks that analogize the “building” of the text to the condensation...

... practice.9 Indeed, Hopkins was an enthusiastic amateur musician.10 Like Hart Crane, he played the piano—though not very well. He composed songs on his and other’s poetry (see Stevens). And he studied counterpoint, in particular species counter- point and fugue. Hopkins even wrote...

... “anxiety of influence” ( Bloom ) differently: “It means I have to be aware of Eliot , but Eliot need never have heard of me.” Eliotic references abound across Glatshteyn’s early work. 11 Invoking these references placed him in good company. As early as 1919, the American poet Harold Hart Crane...

... and of the Anglophone Caribbean respectively. The particular comparative angle is proposed by Jonathan Locke Hart, who argues, “Poetry in English was and is comparative, opening up new worlds with new peoples speaking the tongue, making their poems. This poetry, translated and untranslated, is part of distinctive webs...