Hart Crane Pt. 1

Hart Crane was born in Ohio in 1899. His father was a businessman who owned a candy company and his mom was slightly crazy. He had a tough childhood, because his mother would force him to spend time with her, because she kept on imagining that she would soon catch a fatal disease and die. His mother would continue to control him even when he became an adult. In 1908, he moved to his grandmother's house while his mom recovered from a nervous breakdown. It was at his grandmother's house that he was first exposed to any sort of writing. He began reading pieces by famous poets like Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson who eventually became major influences on him. In 1916, he left Ohio to attend college in New York City. In New York, he decided to quit out of college and chose to follow a career in writing. While there he continued to read up on different poet including William Butler Yeats and James Joyce. Soon, he began to abuse alchol, and have relationships with sailors because it turned out that he was gay.