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 ...

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 ...