The Patron in Poetry. .

The patron also had a great part in the development of the arts in America. Hart Crane, who published "White Buildings" in 1926, followed by the masterpiece "The Bridge." was supported by a millionaire for one year on the Continent Crane is a child of the machine age, and believed in progress through the machine. He used the bridge as an allegorical pathway to heaven. (What heaven?) Robert Frost has the largest American reputation of any contemporary poet. Acclaimed the "only really epic poet America has had," ho proved difficult to place in time. He earthy, downright, sentimental, [unclear: hu] popular."