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The Modernity Of Stephen Crane's Poetry: A Centennial Tribute, Walter Sutton
The Modernity Of Stephen Crane's Poetry: A Centennial Tribute, Walter Sutton
The Courier
A hundred years have passed since the birth of Stephen Crane and eighty since his casual stay at Syracuse University, where he was better known as a baseball enthusiast than as a writer of high promise. Yet his writings in prose and poetry, beginning with Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) and The Red Badge of Courage (1895) and continuing through the brief career that ended with his tragic death in 1900, retain a distinctive contemporaneity, a vitality and freshness that have resisted the passage of years. This quality is more evident, perhaps, in his poetry, which until lately …
The Satirical Rogue Once More: Robert Francis On Poets And Poetry, Syracuse University Library
The Satirical Rogue Once More: Robert Francis On Poets And Poetry, Syracuse University Library
The Courier
When "The Satirical Rogue Once More," a collection of ten roguish comments came to the hands of the Courier editors, it sparked new interest in the writer, who describes himself as "walking round and round Poetry on its pedestal and taking shots at it from every possible angle. Shots with a light gun, a water pistol, a pea shooter." This reawakened interest led directly to another look at the Robert Francis Papers, presented to the University by Mr. Francis from 1967 to 1969, in the manuscript collection of the George Arents Research Library.