
This is an astonishingly innovative collection of poems. In his ironic bitterness and cynicism about war, Crane foreshadows the poets of the First World War, while the poems themselves in their form and style mark the first stirrings of literary modernism.

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...