GREENBERG, SAMUEL BERNARD
- GREENBERG, SAMUEL BERNARD
- GREENBERG, SAMUEL BERNARD (1893–1917), U.S. poet. Born in
Vienna, Greenberg was taken to the U.S. in 1900; after a
poverty-stricken life in New York City's ghetto he died from
tuberculosis at the age of 24. Self-taught except for a few years in
elementary school, he displayed remarkable precocity and power as a poet
and was also a gifted artist. Influenced primarily by the American
writers Emerson and Thoreau and by the English poets Keats, Shelley, and
Browning, Greenberg wrote mystical poetry filled with vivid and strange
imagery. His imperfect command of English grammar and vocabulary give
his verse an unusual, surrealistic tone characteristic of some of the
most sophisticated modernist poetry of the early 20th
century. Greenberg might have remained unknown had not Hart Crane, the
American poet, discovered his manuscripts in 1923. The poems had a
profound effect on Crane and eventually, more than 20 years after
Greenberg's death, a first selection (Poems from the Greenberg
Manuscripts, 1939) was published, which helped to establish his
important place in American literary history. A second selection,
Poems by Samuel Greenberg, was published in 1947.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. Simon, Samuel Greenberg, Hart Crane, and the Lost
Manuscripts (1978).
(Brom Weber)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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