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Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane (11 August 1913 – 22 October 1998) was a poet and novelist who became famous as a child prodigy after the publication of her first book of poetry, ''The Janitor's Boy'', written at age 10 and published two years later. Her poetry was first published in ''The New York Sun'' when she was only 9 years old, the paper unaware that she was a child. She was elected into the British Society of Authors, Playwrights, and Composers in 1925 and later became a professor of English at San Diego State University. After the publication of her second volume of poetry, ''Lava Lanes,'' poet Edwin Markham implied that the publications were probably a hoax, stating "It seems impossible to me that a girl so immature could have written these poems. They are beyond the powers of a girl of twelve. The sophisticated viewpoint of sex, ...knowledge of history and archeology found in these pages place them beyond the reach of any juvenile mind." Crane was dubbed "The Brooklyn Bard" by the time she was 13 and became part of the Louis Untermeyer poetry circle during her late teens, with Untermeyer contributing an introduction to her 1936 volume ''Swear by the Night & Other Poems''.〔 He was an early promoter of her work, stating, "some of the critics explained the work by insisting that the child was some sort of medium, an instrument unaware of what was played upon it; others, considering the book a hoax, scorned the fact that any child could have written verses so smooth in execution and so remarkable in spiritual overtones" and that "the appeal of such lines is not that they have been written by a child but by a poet." She is supposedly related to Stephen Crane, author of ''The Red Badge of Courage'', and the "well-known publicist," Dr. Frank Crane.〔 ==Bibliography== Poetry * n.d., (''The Pamphlet Pacts'' ). New York: Simon & Schuster. OCLC (15723289 ) * 1924, (''The Janitor's Boy: And Other Poems'' ). New York: Thomas Seltzer. OCLC (593572 ) * 1925, (''Lava Lane, and Other Poems'' ). New York: Thomas Seltzer. OCLC (40861749 ) * 1926, (''The Singing Crow'' ). New York: A. & C. Boni. OCLC (26194523 ) * 1928, (''Venus Invisible: And Other Poems'' ). New York: Coward-McCann. OCLC (1487072 ) * 1930, (''Pocahontas'' ). New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. OCLC (1395035 ) * 1936, (''Swear by the Night'' ). New York: Random House. OCLC (330949866 ) * 1939, with Leonard Feeney, (''The Ark and the Alphabet: An Animal Collection'' ). New York: The Macmillan Company. OCLC (1394769 ) * 1941, (''In the Last Lodging of Simplicity...'' ). Richmond Hill, NY: Monastine Press. OCLC (9989633 ) * 1942, (''The Death of Poetry: A Dramatic Poem in Two Parts'' ). New York: The Monastine Press. OCLC (4772185 ) Novels * 1926, (''The Sunken Garden'' ). New York: Thomas Seltzer. OCLC (3373060 ) * 1929, (''An Alien from Heaven'' ). New York: Coward-McCann. OCLC (4068669 ) * 1969, (''The Campus Drum Beat'' ). El Cajon, CA: Cal-West. OCLC (12183657 ) Other * 1925, with Frances E. Friedman, ''Nathalia Crane Song Book''. New York: Thomas Seltzer. OCLC (4380011 ) * 1926, (''Nathalia Crane'' )''.'' New York: Simon & Schuster. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nathalia Crane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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