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SOME writers work their way up to popularity in a long and difficult climb; others hit upon success almost overnight. Stephen Crane's early attempt at literary creation, his novel The Red Badge of Courage, met with triumphal acclaim in 1896, but he only lived long enough to enjoy a few years of controversial fame.








Experimenting in various media 路 journalism, fiction, poetry, playwriting 路 Crane was for his contemporaries above all a picturesque figure of the world of the press. His professional commitments kept him in close touch with the life of his country, and he explored slums and battlefields with unabating eagerness, seeing war in two brief conflicts in 1897 and 1898. The conjunction of highstrung temperament and obstinate neglect of his health brought Crane's life to an early close, when he was not yet twenty-nine.








During the two decades following his death, in 1900, he was to be almost forgotten. Then in 1923 Thomas Beer published an impressionistic biography which served to focus attention on Crane once more, and The Work of Stephen Crane (1925-27), edited by Wilson Follett, made most of his writings available to a scholarly audience. This limited edition contained laudatory prefaces by creative writers such as Amy Lowell, Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, and Willa Cather, a few assessments by professional critics, and reminiscences by fellow journalists. Crane's reputation was also enhanced by the faithful support of some of his friends, especially Edward Garnett, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, and Ford Madox Hueffer, later known as Ford Madox Ford. The thirties saw in him a champion of the cause of the common man, and the forties continued to fit him into a realistic tradition; in the next two decades he has appeared to critics primarily as a symbolist, but a wide range of interpretations has confronted the student with a mass of conflicting scholarship. In 1950 John Berryman's Stephen Crane established him as an American classic. The Modern Library edition of The Red Badge of Courage came out the following year with a preface written by R. W. Stallman, whose extensive work on Crane, climaxed by his monumental biography in 1968, has aroused much enthusiasm and controversy. D. G. Hoffman's The Poetry of Stephen Crane, a very lively and perceptive study, appeared in 1957. Since 1951 there has also been a steady outpouring of articles, dissertations, monographs, and reprints. When, in the summer of 1966, a Stephen Crane Newsletter was founded and began to be issued regularly by Ohio State University, Stephen Crane had come into his own.





(Just a piece of a much longer article found in the database called Literature Resource Center. Check for access through your local library Web site.)


Source: STEPHEN CRANE


by Jean Cazemajou


American Writers


Vol. 1 Pages 405-427


Copyright 1974


Charles Scribner's Sons