┐PARA ╖PAR@ ` ┐TEXT ` ▒Crapsey, Adelaide1878╨1914poetBorn on September 9, 1878, in Brooklyn, New York, Adelaide Crapsey grew up in Rochester, New York. She was the daughter of Reverend Algernon Sidney Crapsey, an Episcopal clergyman who later, in 1906, was defrocked after a celebrated heresy trial. After attending Kemper Hall preparatory school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, she entered Vassar College, from which she graduated in 1901. She taught at Kemper Hall in 1902╨1904 and then spent a year at the School of Classical Studies of the American Academy in Rome. From 1906 to 1908 she taught at Miss Lowe╒s School in Stamford, Connecticut, but by the latter year she was in the grip of tuberculosis; for the next three years she sought to restore her health in Italy and England. During that time Crapsey also carried on the analytic investigations that were to be published, uncompleted, as A Study in English Metrics, 1918. In 1911 she returned to America and took a post as instructor in poetics at Smith College, but her health forced her to give it up in 1913 to enter a sanatorium at Saranac Lake, New York. During her last year she wrote much of the verse that was to make her famous. Her deep interest in meter and rhythm led her to devise a new verse form, the cinquain, a 5-line form of 22 syllables that was ideally suited to her own poised, concise, and delicate expression. She died in Rochester, New York, on October 8, 1914. The next year her own selection of cinquains and verses in other forms appeared as Verses, a volume that was immediately taken up by literati, particularly of the younger generation. Expanded editions in 1922 and 1934 contained some of her earlier and previously unpublished work. ╓styl `
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