Including essays by some of this century's most prestigious literary critics -- Allen Tate, Yvor Winters, William Carlos Williams, R. P. Blackmur, R. W. B. Lewis, and Harold Bloom, among others -- this collection provides a thorough and telling introduction to Crane and his works, especially his collections of lyrical poetry, The Bridge and White Buildings. The volume is edited by Allen Trachtenberg, who has written extensively on Crane and his Whitman-like relationship to American culture.