Harry Crosby

GPTKB entity

Properties (45)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Poet
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkbp:associatedWith The Dial
The Little Review
gptkbp:birthDate 1898-09-17
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Boston,_Massachusetts,_USA
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Cimetière_du_Montparnasse
gptkbp:collection gptkb:The_Complete_Poems_of_Harry_Crosby
The Black Sun: A Collection of Poems
gptkbp:deathDate 1929-12-10
gptkbp:deathPlace Suicide
gptkbp:famousQuote "I am a poet of the night."
"I am a poet, and I am a poet because I am a poet."
"I am a lover of life."
"The only thing that matters is the poem."
"Art is the only way to escape reality."
"I am a child of the sun."
"I am a wanderer in the world of words."
"I write because I cannot help it."
"Poetry is the only truth."
"The poem is the only thing that matters."
gptkbp:genre Modernist poetry
gptkbp:has gptkb:Harry_the_Fifth
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Harry Crosby
gptkbp:influenced American_literature
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Ezra_Pound
gptkb:Gertrude_Stein
gptkbp:inspiredBy Imagism
Symbolism
French_literature
gptkbp:knownFor Avant-garde poetry
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:movement Lost Generation
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableFeature Surrealism
Dadaism
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:The_Poems_of_Harry_Crosby
The Black Sun
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:Poet
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
gptkb:Ernest_Hemingway
gptkbp:spouse Marjorie_Content
gptkbp:website https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/harry-crosby
gptkbp:workLocation gptkb:New_York_City,_USA
gptkb:Paris,_France