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Poet Adelaide Crapsey 1878–1914
Subjects Disappointment & Failure, Living
Poetic Terms Imagery
Biography
Adelaide Crapsey is best remembered as the inventor of the cinquain and as a poet whose compressed lyrics "are a remarkable testament of a spirit 'flashing unquenched defiance to the stars,'" as quoted in Boston Transcript. Though her mature work was published posthumously due to her untimely death at the age of thirty-six, Crapsey nevertheless spent her brief life ardently pursuing her art. Her few publications received . . .
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SUBJECT Disappointment & Failure, Living
Poetic Terms Imagery
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