WEB28 cinquains from Adelaide Crapsey's. Verse. The first edition of Verse was published by the Manas Press in 1915. Alfred A. Knopf published a second edition in 1922 (reprinted in 1925 and 1929) and a third edition in 1934 (reprinted in 1938). The following twenty-eight cinquains have been formatted to approximate their presentation in the ...
WEB1878–1914. Unknown author. Adelaide Crapsey is best remembered as the inventor of the cinquain form 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.
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A Short Analysis of Adelaide Crapsey’s ‘November Night’
WEBMar 12, 2018 · The American poet Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) is not much remembered now, but she left one mini poetic legacy: the cinquain. The word ‘cinquain’ had existed before her miniature verse innovation, but Crapsey co-opted it to describe the five-line unrhymed form which she used in her finest poetry.
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November Night by Adelaide Crapsey | Poetry Foundation
WEBAdelaide Crapsey is best remembered as the inventor of the cinquain form 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...
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Poem of the week: two cinquains by Adelaide Crapsey
WEBJun 3, 2013 · Poem of the week: two cinquains by Adelaide Crapsey. The unjustly neglected early modernist developed from haiku her own form, a vessel for pared-down vernacular observation. Carol Rumens....
WEBAdelaide Crapsey is remembered today for her creation of the cinquain form and her spirited verse. She died quite young, at only thirty-six, so most of her poetry was published after her death. A lot of her work, fitting for her short life, focuses on death and dying. Verse was the only collection published during her lifetime.
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Cinquain.org - A scholarly exploration of the American cinquain as
WEBAdelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) was an American poet best known for establishing the five-line form known as the cinquain. She had a deep appreciation for metrics and was an admirer of Japanese tanka and haiku. Her cinquain was developed partly as an American analogue of these forms.
WEBAdelaide Crapsey did not invent the five-line poem. The Sicilian quintain, the English quintain, the Spanish quintella, the Japanese tanka, and the French cinquain all predate hers. What she did invent, however, is a distinct American version of the five-line poem.
WEBThe American cinquain was created by the American poet Adelaide Crapsey in the early 20th century. A variant of the American cinquain, called the didactic cinquain, is often taught to children in school. Cinquain Pronunciation. Here's how to pronounce cinquain: sin- kane. Cinquains as Five-Line Stanzas in Formal Verse.
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Adelaide Crapsey | Modernist Poetry, Imagist Movement, St
WEBAdelaide Crapsey (born Sept. 9, 1878, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 8, 1914, Rochester, N.Y.) American poet whose work, produced largely in the last year of her life, is perhaps most memorable for the disciplined yet fragile verse form she created, the cinquain. Crapsey grew up in Rochester, New York.
