Stephen Crane, War is Kind

Ken Hada (East Central University)

Ed. by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.2: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth Century, 1783-1900.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

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First circulation or publication 1899

Places

United States, New Jersey (Country of Origin)

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Naturalist
Poem collection

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In addition to his acclaimed fiction:

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Red Badge of Courage

and “The Open Boat”, Stephen Crane produced two volumes of poetry (along with some uncollected poems found after his death). His second book of poems,

War is Kind

, containing 37 poems, was published in May 1899, one year before his death in June 1900. This followed

Black Ridersand Other Lines,

published in 1895.

The poems in War is Kind were “written intermittently from the fall of 1894 until they were collected for the press in 1899” (LaFrance 131). Two of the poems in this second volume, # 3 and # 16, had originally been intended for Black Riders, but were rejected by the publisher (Wertheim

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Citation: Hada, Ken. "War is Kind". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 July 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8685, accessed 24 November 2024.]

Stephen Crane, War is Kind

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