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Slater Brown was the first
writer I think I ever knew.

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I met him when I
was still in college

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and very hopeful and very lost
as to what I could myself ever

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hope to do.

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And I found him a
most sympathetic man.

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And he told me a great
deal about Crane.

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And also in my own
reading I've come

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to feel very closely
the character of emotion

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that Crane was
attempting to register.

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And the particular
situation he had in the 40s

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was, of course, that he was
not highly regarded as a poet.

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The formalist criticism
that then predominated

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tended to feel that "The
Bridge," for example,

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was a technical failure and
therefore the poet who wrote it

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of no real interest.

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Well, in any case, this poem:

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