Samuel Greenberg

Samuel Bernard Greenberg (December 13, 1893 – August 16, 1917) was an Austrian-Jewish American  poet and artist.

Life
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 Crane s "Emblems of Conduct".

Recognition
W.H. Auden included some of Greenberg's poetry in the Oxford Book of Modern American Verse.

Publications
All posthumously published
 * Poems from the Greenberg Manuscripts: A Selection from the Work of Samuel B. Greenberg (edited by James Laughlin). Norfolk: New Directions, 1939.
 * Poems by Samuel Greenberg: A Selection from the Manuscripts (edited by Harold Holden and Jack McManis). New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947.
 * March Simon, Samuel Greenberg, Hart Crane, and the Lost Manuscripts. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1978. (Critical study with appendix that prints Crane's typescript of forty-one poems by Greenberg.)
 * Self Charm: Selected Sonnets & Other Poems (edited by Michael Carr and Michael Smith). Cambridge, MA: Katalanche Press, 2005.