At Melville’s Tomb Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men’s bones he saw bequeath An embassy. Their numbers as he watched, Beat on the dusty shore and were obscured. And ...

On July 21, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial ended with John Thomas Scopes convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution in violation of state law. I am living in the shadow of that bridge. There is ...

HART CRANE: THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN POET—Philip Horton—Norton ($3). Few modern readers could recall even the name of any 18th Century U. S. poet. Of the 19th Century, only three names are still ...

The death of the poet Hart Crane has become the stuff of melancholy legend: At high noon, after a night of drunken brawling, Crane leapt from the stern of the SS Orizaba into the Atlantic Ocean, north ...