SOURCE: O'Brien, Edward J. “Correspondence: August Stramm.” Poetry: A Magazine of Verse 8 (April-September 1916): 213-15.

In the following letter, which appeared following the poet's death, the editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse lauds Stramm's contribution to German literature.

Dear Poetry: Too little notice has been taken of the death of Captain August Stramm, the young German soldier and poet, who was killed last autumn during a cavalry charge in Russia.

Stramm gave poetry a new method, poetic drama a new field of imaginative vision. Yet he was but little known, even in Germany, when he died. As with Rupert Brooke, the glamor of his death may render tardy justice to his poetry. His gift to imaginative literature was just beginning to be perceived, and one or two French literary circles began to show signs of his influence. Eventually he might have meant to Germany what Synge did to...