Stephen Crane Poems

Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist, best known for the novel Red Badge of Courage. The novel introduced for most readers Crane's strikingly original prose, an intensely rendered mix of impressionism, naturalism and symbolism. He died at age 28 in Badenweiler, Baden, Germany. Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey, the fourteenth child of a Methodist minister. His father died in 1880 and Crane was raised by his devout mother, who died in 1890. Crane studied at Lafayette College and Syracuse University, but attained degrees from neither. After his mother's death Crane moved to New York City, where he lived a bohemian life working as a free-lance writer and journalist. He wrote articles for, among others, the New York Tribune. Crane observed the poor in the Bowery slums as research for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), a milestone in uncompromising realism and in the early development of literary naturalism. Crane was forced to print the book with money borrowed from his brother, and released it under the pseudonym "Johnston Smith." It was not a commercial success or favored by most critics of the time, though it won the admiration of Hamlin Garland and William Dean Howells.


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Poems Collection - poems, 2021 edition