According to Professor Hammer, Hart Crane’s poem "Voyages" serves as a nuanced response to which of the following notable modernist pieces?

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Langston Hughes’ poem titled "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"Ezra Pound’s epic work known as "Cantos"T.S. Eliot’s poem "A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"T.S. Eliot’s influential poem "The Waste Land"

Explanation

Professor Hammer interprets Hart Crane’s "Voyages" as a sophisticated answer to T.S. Eliot’s "The Waste Land," highlighting the intertextual dialogue between these modernist works. While Hughes, Pound, and Eliot’s other poems are significant, it is "The Waste Land" that Crane’s poem particularly engages with.