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    Delphi Complete Works of Adelaide Crapsey (Illustrated)
    Delphi Complete Works of Adelaide Crapsey (Illustrated)
    Delphi Complete Works of Adelaide Crapsey (Illustrated)
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    Delphi Complete Works of Adelaide Crapsey (Illustrated)

    By Adelaide Crapsey

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    Born in Brooklyn, New York, Adelaide Crapsey was an innovative poet, whose interest in rhythm and metre led her to create a unique variation on the ‘cinquain’, a five-line form of 22 syllables inspired by the Japanese haiku. Her surviving poetry was mostly produced in her final years, before her untimely death at the age of thirty-six. In recent years, her poems have received increased recognition, celebrated for their disciplined, yet fragile brilliance, confirming her status as a pioneer of twentieth century modernism. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Crapsey’s complete poetical works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)


    * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Crapsey’s life
    * Concise introduction to Crapsey’s life and poetry
    * Excellent formatting of the poems
    * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
    * Easily locate the poems you want to read


    Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles


    CONTENTS:


    The Life and Poetry of Adelaide Crapsey
    Brief Introduction: Adelaide Crapsey by Claude Bragdon
    Complete Poetical Works of Adelaide Crapsey


    The Poems
    List of Poems in Chronological Order
    List of Poems in Alphabetical Order


    Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDelphi Classics Ltd
    Release dateDec 20, 2019
    ISBN9781913487034
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      Delphi Complete Works of Adelaide Crapsey (Illustrated) - Adelaide Crapsey

      Adelaide Crapsey

      (1878-1914)

      Contents

      The Life and Poetry of Adelaide Crapsey

      Brief Introduction: Adelaide Crapsey by Claude Bragdon

      Complete Poetical Works of Adelaide Crapsey

      The Poems

      List of Poems in Chronological Order

      List of Poems in Alphabetical Order

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      Adelaide Crapsey - Delphi Poets Series

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2019.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

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      The Life and Poetry of Adelaide Crapsey

      Brooklyn Heights, New York, 1856 — Crapsey’s birthplace

      Brooklyn Heights today

      Crapsey, c. 1905

      Brief Introduction: Adelaide Crapsey by Claude Bragdon

      ADELAIDE CRAPSEY, daughter of Algernon Sidney and Adelaide Trowbridge Crapsey, was born on the ninth of September, 1878. She died in her thirty-sixth year on October the eighth, 1914. Her young girlhood was spent in Rochester, New York, where her eminent father was rector of St. Andrew’s Parish. At fourteen she entered the preparatory school of Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wisconsin, from which school she graduated at the head of her class, in 1897. She entered Vassar College the same year, graduating with the class of 1901.

      Two years after her graduation she began her work as a teacher of History and Literature, in Kemper Hall. In 1905 she went abroad and became a student in the School of Archaeology in Rome. The following year she assumed the position of instructor in Literature and History in Miss Lowe’s Preparatory School in Stamford, Conn., but in 1908 on account of failing health she was compelled to abandon teaching for a time. The two succeeding years she spent in Italy and England, working on her Analysts of English Metrics — an exhaustive scientific thesis relating to accent — which years before she had planned to accomplish as her serious life work.

      In 1911 she returned to America and became instructor in Poetics at Smith College. The double burden of teaching and writing proved too much for her frail constitution, and in 1913, gravely ill, she was obliged to abandon definitely and finally both activities. The rest is a silence broken only by the remarkable verses of her last poetic phase.

      These are the bare biographical facts in the life of Adelaide Crapsey, but it would be an injustice to the reader not to attempt to render some sense of her personality, all compounded of beauty, mystery and charm. I remember her as fair and fragile, in action swift, in repose still; so quick and silent in her movements that she seemed never to enter a

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