Samuel Greenberg
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The fullest collection of his poems is ''Poems by Samuel Greenberg'', ed. Harold Holden and Jack McManis, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947.
The critical attention Greenberg has received began when the critic William Murrell Fisher (1889–1969) first showed Hart Crane 11 Greenberg poems he had published in a journal called ''The Ploughshare'' in Woodstock, NY, as well as several notebooks full of poems Greenberg's brother Morris had left him. Crane retyped 41 poems on 32 pages on yellow foolscap and brought the manuscript back to New York with him on the train on January 2, 1924. Crane created a poem of his own called "Emblems of Conduct" from phrases of a poem by Greenberg called "Conduct," interspersed with lines of his own. The poem was published in Crane's first collection, ''White Buildings'', to attract attention to Greenberg. Crane was dubious about including it, but Malcolm Cowley and Allen Tate urged him to use the poem.
Other critics, however, have charged Crane with being disingenuous and having actually plagiarized Greenberg's work.
A number of his poems have been set to music by the Jewish-American composer Justin Henry Rubin, one of which became a short multimedia film (2007) based on Greenberg's ''The Pale Memory'' (completed in collaboration with artist John Merigliano). Provided by Wikipedia