History

ADELAIDE CRAPSEY

American Verse Project   This AVP page contains the complete works of Adelaide Crapsey, the mother of the cinquain form. All of her cinquains may be read at the American Verse Project page.

Discovering Adelaide Crapsey: Confessions of a Convert an outstanding biographical article by Karen Alkalay-Gut, whose insights into the cinquain form are most instructive.

Complete Bibliography of Adelaide Crapsey at Karen Alkalay-Gut's website.

Complete Poems of Adelaide Crapsey at Karen Alkalay-Gut's website.

Alone in the Dawn : The Life of Adelaide Crapsey   is an excellent biography by Karen Alkalay-Gut. This link is to Amazon.com.

Adelaide Crapsey (l878-l9l4)   Rush Rhees Library University of Rochester collection of the papers of Adelaide Crapsey.

Series XIII. Adelaide Crapsey Material   Jean Webster Papers Vassar College Library collection of the papers of Adelaide Crapsey.

Crapsey, Adelaide   Article in the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Crapsey, Adelaide   Article in the Columbia Encyclopedia.

Adelaide Crapsey: Creator of the Cinquain verse form   A "webography" by Jennifer Macatangay 1/13/01 (Millikin University). Includes several links.

Cornhuskers   A poem about Adelaide Crapsey in Carl Sandburg's (1878-1967) Cornhuskers - 1918.

Modern American Poetry   Adelaide Crapsey in Louis Untermeyer's (1885-1977) Modern American Poetry - 1919.

Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey   Susan Sutton Smith, editor. State Univ. of New York Press, 1977. ISBN: 0873953428. See also this SUNY webpage on the same book.

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu   The Japanese poetry which influenced the development of the cinquain by Adelaide Crapsey.