Crapsey, Adelaide

(1878–1914) poet; born in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. She attended Vassar (1897–1901), studied archaeology in Rome (1904–05), taught school in America (1902–04; 1908), and lived in Rome (1908–13). Using an innovative verse form called cinquains, she anticipated the Imagist poets, as seen in her Verses (1915). She died of tuberculosis at a sanatorium in Saranac Lake, N.Y.

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