Reviews
According to the Poetry Foundation, "this work earned substantial respect as an imposing stylist, one whose lyricism and imagery recalled the French Romantics Baudelaire and Rimbaud."
However, one notable review of the book was mixed. In The New Republic, Edmund Wilson wrote that Crane had, "a remarkable style... almost something like a great style, if there could be such a thing as a great style... not, so far as one can see, applied to any subject at all." Crane responded to this criticism by calling Wilson’s article "half-baked."
The poet/critic Randall Jarrell singled out "the mesmeric rhetoric of 'Voyages II,' one of the most beautiful of all of those poems in which love, death, and sleep 'are fused for an instant in one floating flower.'"
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