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• Harding, Walter. "Henry David Thoreau." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Adelaide Crapsey taught at Kemper Hall (1902-04), Miss Lowe's Preparatory School, Stamford, Conn. (1906-08), and Smith College (1911-12). She invented the quintain and died much too young for one with such astonishing skill as a poet.

Lynn Crosbie has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto and is a Toronto-based writer. The author of five collections of poems, most recently, Missing Children (McClelland and Stewart, 2003), Crosby is also an anthologist, editing The Girl Wants To: Women's Representations of Sex and the Body (Coach House: 1993), Click: Becoming Feminists (MacFarlane Walter & Ross: 1997), and Plush:5 Gay Poets, with Michael Holmes (Coach House, 1995). She has written two novels, Paul's Case (Insomniac, 1997) and Dorothy L'Amour (HarperCollins, 1999), and a screenplay for Bruce McDonald's company, Shadow Shows. She is a regular columnist for the Globe and Mail.

• Missing Children. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003.
• Queen Rat: new and selected poems. Toronto: Anansi, 1998.
• Pearl: poems. Concord, Ont.: Anansi, 1996.
• I eat your flesh: poems. Toronto: Streetcar Editions, 1993.
• Villain Elle. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1994.
• Miss Pamela's Mercy. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1992.

George Elliott Clarke is the E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. His works include the poem-novel, Whylah Falls (1990), the narrative lyric sequence, Execution Poems (2001), and the verse-play and opera, Beatrice Chancy (1999). Clarke's awards include the Governor-General's Award for Poetry (2001), a Bellagio (Italy) Center Fellowship (1998), and the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry (2002). He has also published a major critical book, Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (University of Toronto Press, Summer 2002).

He is a member of the Black Cultural Society of Nova Scotia, the League of Canadian Poets, the Modern Languages Association, the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia, the Writer's Guild of Canada, and the Writers Union of Canada.

• Blue. Vancouver: Polestar Book Publishers, 2001.
• Beatrice Chancy. Victoria, BC: Polestar Book Publishers, 1999.
• Execution Poems. Wolfville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2001.
• Lush Dreams, Blue Exile. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1983.
• Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues. Porters Lake, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1983.
• Whylah Falls. Vancouver: Polestar Book Publishers, 1990.

Sources:

• Canadian Who's Who 2003 Vol. XXXVIII
• Clarke, George Elliott. Whylah Falls. Polestar, 1990.

For other poems, see the Griffin Prize

• Thou Poem

and The Poetry Foundation

• And the One Breath
• At Two Solemn Musicks
• Better Days
• Busman's Honeymoon
• Cleanliness
• Häagen-Dazs Freezer Truck Blocking View of Ottawa River While Its Compressor Blots the Sounds of Nature
• Place
• Pleasure Cruiser
• Seven Drunks
• The Guru
• The Little Walls Before China
• The Seer
• The Sentinel
• The Tidal Wave
• What Way
• What We Had
• You That I Loved
• Your Story

A. F. Moritz has published fifteen books of poems, which have earned the Griffin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Ingram Merrill Fellowship, selection to the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and other honours. He has translated seven books of poetry and a novel from Spanish and French, and in collaboration with Theresa Moritz has written biographies of Emma Goldman and Stephen Leacock, and The Oxford Literary Guide to Canada. He holds a doctorate in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British poetry.

• Black Orchid. Toronto: Dreadnaught, 1981.
• Conflicting Desire Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions, 2000.
• Between the Root and the Flower. White Rock, BC: Blackfish Press, 1982.
• Early Poems. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2002.
• The End of the Age. Toronto: Watershed Books, 2002.
• Houseboat on the Styx. Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions, 1998.
• Mahoning. London, ON: Brick Books, 1994.
• Music and Exile. Toronto: Dreadnaught, 1980.
• Rest on the Flight into Egypt. London, ON: Brick Books, 1999.
• The Sentinal Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2008.
• Signs and Certainties. Montreal: Villaneuve, 1979.
• The Tradition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.
• The Visitation. Toronto: Aya Press, (1983).

Sources:

• Moritz, A.F. Mahoning. London: Brick Books, 1994.
• Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2001. li> Contemporary Poets, 7th ed. St. James Press, 2001.

• Hadgraft, Cecil. "Stephens, James Brunton (1835–1902)." Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
• Stephens, James Brunton. The Poetical Works of Brunton Stephens. Sydney: University of Sydney Library, 2001.
• --. Convict Once: And Other Poems. Sydney: University of Sydney Library, 2003.
• --. The poetical works of Brunton Stephens. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1902. PR 5473 .S746 A17 1902 Robarts Library

Father Tabb (John Banister Tabb) was born at "The Forrest," in Mattoax, near Richmond, Virginia, on March 22, 1845. Despite bad eyesight, he served on the Robert E. Lee steamer for the South in the Civil War and was imprisoned by the North in Point Lookout prison. After the war, he taught at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Baltimore, and Racine College, Michigan. He left the Anglicanism and entered the Catholic Church September 8, 1872. Educated first at St. Charles College, in Ellicot City, Maryland, from 1872 to 1875, he taught for some years, 1877-78, at St. Peter's Boys' School, Richmond, and then at St. Charles College, until entering St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, in 1881. He graduated as a priest on December 20, 1884. From that year until his death, Father Tabb was chair of English at St. Charles College. (The College, burned down in 1911, relocated in Catonsville up to 1969, when St. Charles closed.) His amusing Bone Rules, or Skeleton of English Grammar was published in 1897. His lyrics appeared in eleven collections from 1882 to 1910. Beautifully crafted, accessible to everyone, Father Tabb's poems enjoyed a wide audience. He became totally blind in 1908. He died a confederate on November 19, 1909, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. His niece Jennie produced a loving biography and appreciation in 1922.

• Hayes, Kevin J. "Tabb, John Banister." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• The Poetry of Father Tabb: John Banister Tabb. Ed. Francis A. Litz. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1927. PS 2965 A2 1928 Robarts Library
• "Tabb, John Banister." The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XIII. New York: James T. White, 1906. 249-50.
• Tabb, Jennie Masters. Father Tabb: His Life and Work. Boston, Mass.: Stratford, 1922. PS 2968 T3 1922 Robarts Library
• Tabb, John Banister. Bone Rules, or Skeleton of English Grammar. New York : Benziger Bros., 1897. PE 1113 .T33 1897 Robarts Library
• --. Child Verse. 1899.
• --. Later Lyrics. 1902.
• --
• Later Poems. 1910.
• --. Lyrics. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897. PS 2967 .L9 Robarts Library
• --. An Octave to Mary 1893.
• --. Poems. 1882.
• --. Poems. 1894.
• --. Quips and Quiddits: Ques for the Qurious. Boston: Small Maynard, 1907. PS 2967 Q5 1907 Robarts Library
• --. The Rosary in Rhyme. Boston: Small Maynard.
• --. A Selection from the Verses of John B. Tabb. 1906.

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, described by P. Lal as a "Calcutta Eurasian of Portuguese Indian ancestry," was born on April 18, 1809, and educated in a private English-speaking school in the Dharmatala or (today) Esplanade area around the Shahid Minar in Calcutta. A journalist who contributed verse to the India Gazette and brought out a book of English poetry, The Fakeer of Jungheera in 1828, Derozio by that year had joined Hindu College (founded in 1817, now Presidency College), Calcutta. Institutional outrage at his charismatic and radical, or rather open-minded, teaching caused him to resign in 1831. The College auditorium is today called Derozio Hall. He then established the East Indian daily newspaper but died shortly afterwards, on Dec. 26, 1831, of cholera.

• Derozio, Henry Louis Vivian. The Fakeer of Jungheera: A Metrical Tale. Calcutta: Samuel Smith, 1828.
• --. Poems. London: Oxford University Press, 1923.
• --. Poems. Ed. P. Lal. Intro. Susobhan Sarkar. Pref. C. Paul Verghese. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1972. PR 9480.9 .D38A17 1972 Robarts Library
• Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1808-1831), Anglo-Indian Patriot and Poet; A Memorial Volume. Ed. Mary Ann Das Gupta. Calcutta: Derozio Commemorative Committee, 1973. PR 9499.3 .D38Z6 Robarts Library

Arabella Eugenia Smith was born in 1844 in Lichfield, Ohio, and resided from 1850 to 1874 in Percival, Iowa. She graduated from Tabor College (originally Tabor Literary Institute, 1853-66, open to both sexes) in Tabor, Iowa. This Christian College offered four-year courses in classics, science, and literature and was located on a plateau between the Nishnabotna and Missouri Rivers. It opened in 1866 and had to close in 1927. After graduation, she became an instructor there. She published "If I Should Die To-night" in The Christian Union on June 18, 1873, and in only a few years it swept America as one of the county's favorite poems and hymns. Her authorship of the poem was quickly obscured; for example, Slason Thompson, in The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse 1870 to 1885 (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1886; 309-10; CIHM no. 34189, mfe Z C255 Robarts Library), presents it as anonymous. We know very little about Smith's life. She died in July, 1916, in Santa Barbara, California, according to an Associated Press release of July 24. Her biography appears in A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (New York: C. L. Webster, 1891; PS 504 S84 Robarts Library). For an account of the poem, and its parody by Ben King, see Burton E. Stevenson, Famous Single Poems And the Controversies Which Have Raged Around Them (London: George G. Harrap, 1924; PS 303 S7 Robarts Library).

• Clark, Ira. "Shirley, James (bap. 1596, d. 1666)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.