The Glass Bubbles
Source: The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006)
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Poet Samuel Greenberg 1893–1917
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Subjects Nature, Seas, Rivers, & Streams
Biography
Samuel Greenberg was born in Vienna, Austria in 1893. He came to New York when he was seven and lived, first in poverty and then in a series of charity hospitals, on the Lower East Side. Greenberg died on Wards Island at age 23 of tuberculosis. Though his work was unpublished during his lifetime, he had a profound effect on Hart Crane, who took inspiration from Greenberg’s sonically dense and richly imaged lyricism; scholars . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Nature, Seas, Rivers, & Streams
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
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