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 | | In “The Red Badge of Courage” invariably the tone is kept down where one expects a height: the most heroic deeds are accomplished with studied awkwardness. |
 | | For the most part, these tales are episodic, reports of isolated instances—the profanely humorous experiences of correspondents, the magnificent courage of signalmen under fire, the forgotten adventure of a converted yacht—but all are instinct with the red fever of war, and are backgrounded with the choking smoke of battle. |
 | | Never again did Crane attempt the large canvas of “The Red Badge of Courage.” Before he had seen war, he imagined its immensity and painted it with the fury and fidelity of a Verestchagin; when he was its familiar, he singled out its minor, crimson passages for briefer but no less careful delineation. |
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