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Adelaide Crapsey

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Adelaide Crapsey Famous memorial

Birth
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Death
8 Oct 1914 (aged 36)
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Burial
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Range 2, Lot 334
Memorial ID
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Poet. She studied at Vassar and served as instructor of poetetics at Smith College from 1911 to 1913. She became best known as a visionary poet writing in a highly concise style, and was the inventor of the cinquain (five line) verse.
Poet. She studied at Vassar and served as instructor of poetetics at Smith College from 1911 to 1913. She became best known as a visionary poet writing in a highly concise style, and was the inventor of the cinquain (five line) verse.

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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Added: May 5, 1998
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2888/adelaide-crapsey: accessed ), memorial page for Adelaide Crapsey (9 Sep 1878–8 Oct 1914), Find a Grave Memorial ID 2888, citing Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.