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Adelaide Crapsey

Born

in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

September 09, 1878

Died

October 08, 1914

Genre

Poetry

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Poet. Daughter of Algernon Sidney Crapsey.

In the years before her untimely death from tuberculosis, she wrote much of the verse on which her reputation rests. Her interest in rhythm and meter led her to create a unique variation on the cinquain (or quintain), a 5-line form of 22 syllables influenced by the Japanese haiku and tanka.

Her five-line cinquain (now styled as an American cinquain) has a generally iambic meter defined as 'one-stress, two-stress, three-stress, four-stress and suddenly back to one-stress' and normally consists of 2 syllables in the first and last lines and 4, 6 and 8 syllables in the middle three lines, as shown in the poem Niagara.

Marianne Moore said of her poetic style 'Crapsey's apartness and delicately differenti ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 211 ratings · 13 reviews · 152 distinct works • Similar authors

	Verse 3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1922 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey by Adelaide Crapsey, Susan Sutton Smith (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Works of Adelaide Crapsey 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window by Adelaide Crapsey, Claude Bragdon (Foreword), M.N. Lopez (Narrator) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1913	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bláar hýasintur by Adelaide Crapsey, Magnús Sigurðsson (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Quotes by Adelaide Crapsey (?)

“And if the many sayings of the wise
Teach of submission I will not submit
But with a spirit all unreconciled
Flash an unquenched defiance to the stars.”
― Adelaide Crapsey, Verse

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“When I was girl by Nilus stream
I watched the deserts stars arise;
My lover, he who dreamed the Sphinx,
Learned all his dreaming from eyes.

I bore in Greece a burning name,
And I have been in Italy
Madonna to a painter-lad,
And mistress to a Medici.

And have you heard (and I have heard)
Of puzzled men with decorous mien,
Who judged - the wench knew far too much -
And burnt her on the Salem green?”
― Adelaide Crapsey, Verse

tags: immortality, witch, witch-hunts, witchcraft

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“Sun and wind and beat of sea,
Great lands stretching endlessly...
Where be bonds to bind the free?
All the world was made for me!”
― Adelaide Crapsey

tags: independence, travel

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