 Since the resurgence of Crane's popularity in the 1920s, "The Red Badge of Courage" has been deemed a major American text.The novel has been anthologized numerous times, including in the 1942 collection "", edited by Ernest Hemingway.In the introduction, Hemingway wrote that the novel "is one of the finest books of our literature, and I include it entire because it is all as much of a piece as a great poem is."