Black Riders, The, and Other Lines

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart

Black Riders, The, and Other Lines, volume of free verse by Stephen Crane , published in 1895. Influenced by reading Emily Dickinson, Crane in these concise, intense unrhymed poems foreshadows the work of the Imagists. Elliptical renderings of his naturalistic philosophy, they show his bewildered bitterness of youth buffeted by the great impersonal forces of the world.

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