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    War Is Kind and Other Poems
    War Is Kind and Other Poems
    War Is Kind and Other Poems
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    War Is Kind and Other Poems

    By Stephen Crane

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    A unique stylist and one of the most innovative and talented writers of his generation, Stephen Crane (1871–1900) won lasting fame as a novelist (The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets) and short story writer. Described by William Dean Howells as a writer whose genius seemed to "spring to life fully armed," Crane also produced impressive free-form verse.
    This excellent anthology contains nearly all of Crane's verse, including two complete books of poems: The Black Riders and Other Lines, which garnered immediate praise; and War Is Kind, ablaze with vivid imagery. Here, too, are rewarding selections from his uncollected poetic works. Thought by some critics to anticipate the Imagist movement of the twentieth century, Crane's poems are usually brief, cadenced, and rhymeless, rich in drama and symbolism, and spiritually penetrating.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMay 13, 2016
    ISBN9780486812021
    War Is Kind and Other Poems
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    Stephen Crane

    Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900) was a war correspondent, novelist, short story writer and poet. He is the author of Maggie, The Red Badge of Courage, George's Mother and The Black Riders. Ernest Hemingway on The Red Badge of Courage: "One of the finest books of our literature…it is all as much of one piece as a great poem is."

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      War Is Kind and Other Poems - Stephen Crane

      WAR IS KIND

      and Other Poems

      Stephen Crane

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      MINEOLA, NEW YORK

      DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

      GENERAL EDITOR: PAUL NEGRI

      EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: JULIE NORD

      Copyright

      Copyright © 1998 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 1998 and reissued in 2016, contains the unabridged texts of Stephen Crane's The Black Riders and Other Lines, 1896, 3rd Edition (Copeland and Day, Boston) and War Is Kind, 1899 (Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York). Also included are nine of Crane's uncollected poems. A new introductory Note has been specially prepared for this edition.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Crane, Stephen, 1871–1900.

      War is kind, and other poems / Stephen Crane.

      p. cm. — (Dover thrift editions)

      ISBN-13: 978-0-486-40424-0 (pbk.)

      ISBN-10: 0-486-40424-2 (pbk.)

      I. Title. II. Series.

      PS1449.C85W3 1998

      8ll'.4—dc21

      98-41719

      CIP

      Manufactured in the United States by RR Donnelley

      40424202     2016

      www.doverpublications.com

      Note

      STEPHEN CRANE [1871–1900] was born into a family full of ministers, soldiers, and writers. His interests and obsessions were strongly influenced by this fact: he was passionately rebellious in his attitude towards religion, conventional morality, and war, but also passionately devoted to writing. In a career of just ten years he wrote five novels, a host of stories and journalistic pieces, and two volumes of poetry. The poetry's significance has sometimes been overlooked, in part because his work in other genres comprises a much larger oeuvre. But in the decades since Crane's death, his poetry has won the growing enthusiasm of readers and critics alike. It is now ranked with the work of such great American originals as Whitman and Dickinson, and is credited with anticipating the stylistic innovations of twentieth-century poetry, particularly French symbolism.

      Crane's short, tempestuous life was full of dramatic incidents, the stuff of literary legend. For instance, his friend and mentor Hamlin Garland recorded a fascinating account of how Crane's earliest poems were written: Crane was twenty-one at the time, an unknown and wretchedly poor. He had worked as a reporter, but his self-published first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, had attracted so little attention that the failure of his literary ambitions began to seem preordained. Desperate to find a form that would truly launch his career, he turned to poetry, and here his ideas and words flowed at an astonishing pace. He would appear at Garland's home with a sheaf of poems in his coat pocket, and remark that he had six or seven more lined up in his head, all in a row, waiting to be set down. When Garland suggested he draft one on the spot, he did so without hesitation or a single crossed out word. The entire manuscript of what would become his first book—some sixty poems at least—seems to have been completed within just a couple of weeks.

      At first Crane showed these works only to his roommates, fellow starving artists all, and their responses were hardly encouraging. They howled over the . . . verses so loud they nearly cracked my ears,

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