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September 17, 2019
The Forgotten Lower East Side Poet Whose Work Was Popularized and Plagiarized by Hart Crane
Samuel Greenberg.
Born in Vienna in 1893 to Yiddish-speaking parents who immigrated to Manhattan’s Lower East Side when he was a child, the American Jewish poet Samuel Greenberg died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-three. Greenberg’s poems were first published in 1939, in a posthumous volume reissued this year. But before that Greenberg’s work had already garnered some fame thanks to the Ohio-born American poet Hart Crane, who discovered his manuscripts and liberally plagiarized from them. Neil Arditi tells the story:
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The Forgotten Lower East Side Poet Whose Work Was Popularized and Plagiarized by Hart Crane
Samuel Greenberg.