Harry crosby poet biography
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From a family of rich New England bankers, Harry Crosby was born in 1898 in Boston, a poet who came to epitomize what Ernest Hemingway described as the Lost Generation. He was brought up in the exclusivity of the Back Bay area of the city and his uncle was then one of the richest men in America. He lived a privileged youth in a large mansion, delighting in throwing water bombs off the top story at visiting guests.
Crosby was sent to public school and graduated from St Mark’s in 1917 while war raged across the Atlantic in Europe. Along with the likes of Hemingway, Cowley and Crane, he longed for something more exciting and on graduating left for France to serve in the American Field Service. He experienced action as an ambulance driver in the Battle of Verdun and his vehicle was hit by a shell that miraculously left him unharmed.
Most of what followed of Crosby’s life stemmed from that moment when he almost lost it and, combined with his independent wealth, prompted him to lead the
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| Harry Crosby | |
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| Born | June 4, 1898(1898-Template:MONTHNUMBER-04) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | December 10, 1929(1929-Template:MONTHNUMBER-10) (aged 31) New York, New York |
| Occupation | Publisher, Poet, writer; co-founder, Black Sun Press |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1925–1929 |
| Notable work(s) | Red Skeletons (1927), Chariot of the Sun (1928), Transit of Venus (1928) |
| Spouse(s) | Polly Peabody (née Mary Phelps Jacob, later Caresse Crosby) |
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Henry Grew ("Harry") Crosby (June 4, 1898 - December 10, 1929) was an American poet, heir, bon vivant, and publisher who, for some, epitomized the Lost Generation in American literature.
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Crosby was the son of one of the richest banking families in New England, a member of the Boston Brahmins, and the nephew of Jane Norton Grew, the wife of financier J.P. Morgan, Jr. As s
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Harry Crosby: A Biographical Essay
Edward Brunner
Harry Crosby’s "Brief Transit"
He had gifts that would have made him an explorer, a soldier of fortune, a revolutionist: they were qualities fatal to a poet.
--Malcolm Cowley’s summary of Harry Crosby
Harry Crosby has been twice cursed with exceptional biographers (Malcolm Cowley in 1934 and Geoffrey Wolff in 1976) who were interested in exposing the sensational aspects of his too-brief existence – he died in 1929 at the age of 31 in a double suicide pact that seemed made for tabloid headlines – but who were not particularly sympathetic to his writings. Those writings, to be sure, were not designed to be likable or even that accessible: avant-garde,