Cause of death tuberculosis Name Samuel Greenberg Religion Jewish | Occupation Artist and Poet Nationality United States Role Poet | |
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Born December 13, 1893 ( 1893-12-13 ) New York City Died August 16, 1917, New York City, New York, United States | ||
The Pale Memory
Samuel Bernard Greenberg (December 13, 1893 – August 16, 1917) was an Austrian-American Jewish poet and artist. Greenberg grew up in poverty on the Lower East Side of New York City and spent the last years of his life in and out of charity hospitals. He died of tuberculosis in the Manhattan State Hospital on Wards Island. What little mainstream critical attention he has received has arisen through debate over the poet Hart Crane's re-writing of several Greenberg poems, most notably "Conduct", into "Emblems of Conduct" by Crane.
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