death coach
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
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death coach. Spectral vehicle in Irish folklore whose stopping at the door announced the death of a resident the next day. As the driver is headless and the horses are either black or headless, the death coach is sometimes called the headless coach. If it is seen passing it should not be stopped, as someone will die near the spot where it comes to rest. Sometimes the
banshee rides the coach or may fly in the air near it. At other times the headless phanton
dullahan drives. Fallen bridges offer no obstacle to the death coach. Although the death coach seems uniquely Irish, it is a variant on international tale type 335; see also the
ANGOU of Wales;
ANKOU of Brittany;
FAR DOROCHA. While the death coach is found in Irish oral tradition, it is probably best known today from its recreation in the Disney film
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1958), based on the popular fiction of H. T. Kavanagh (1932).
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The Style Invitational
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/26/1996; 700+ words
; ...the turn of the century by one Adelaide Crapsey, a humongously sensitive Vassar...several books of cinquains by Miss Crapsey, a hugely tragic figure, and...examples above were written by Miss Crapsey between 1911 and 1913. The rules...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Your LIFE: POETRY CORNER; ONE of Britain's most successful female poets, selects a poem for women and discusses its meaning...(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 7/30/2007; 448 words
; Byline: Carol Ann Duffy THE LONELY DEATH BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY In the cold I will rise, I will bathe In waters...under my chin. CAROL ANN SAYS: The American poet Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) died of tuberculosis at only 37...
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ASK THE POETESS
Magazine article from: Poetry; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...poetess of the twentieth century, Sara Teasdale or Adelaide Crapsey? - WONDERING DEAR WONDERING - A usage note at dictionary...and bad. It's true that few poems surpass Ms. Adelaide Crapsey's subtly apostrophe'd lines from her cinquain...
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Ask the poetess.(COMMENT)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 7/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...poetess of the twentieth century, Sara Teasdale or Adelaide Crapsey?--WONDERING DEAR WONDERING--A usage note at...and bad. It's true that few poems surpass Ms. Adelaide Crapsey's subtly apostrophe'd lines from her cinquain...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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ON THE LOCAL WEB.(Business)(InterNET page)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 6/29/1998; 424 words
; ...well as guest writings by others. The poetry sections are wonderful; if you have any interest in poetry, make sure to check out the sections on the Crapsey Cinquain, a form of poetry developed by Adelaide Crapsey between 1911 and 1913.
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HARDCOVERS IN BRIEF
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/26/1989; 700+ words
; ...Montague Summers. Alone in the Dawn: The Life of Adelaide Crapsey , by Karen Alkalay-Gut (University of Georgia...verse, who died from tuberculosis at 36, firmly sets Crapsey in her time and place (turn-of-the-century upstate...
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TEACHER GIVES CHILDREN POETIC LICENSE
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...a book of children's poems. Then she spoke about Adelaide Crapsey, the young New England woman who invented cinquains...rhyme, and I will use a special form,'" she quoted Crapsey as saying. "So she chose syllables, just like haiku...
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The father of us all
Magazine article from: Parnassus : Poetry in Review; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...lost in cyberspace. Each time I visited, JL was in the throes of a new poetic enthusiasm: "fivers" modeled on Adelaide Crapsey's, a Catullan love poem, a lampoon of American politicians (the oafish George Bush JL particularly detested...
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More than an Anthill.(George Antheil)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...stuff empty and pretentious. When the youth came back after a while with Five Songs for Soprano and Piano After Adelaide Crapsey, Bloch took him on. Two years later, he had to quit for lack of funds before he could finish his First Symphony...
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Of Thee I Sing
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/28/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...thumping rants, Richard Wright's "Selected Haiku," 19 specimens as decorous and reticent as the cinquains of Adelaide Crapsey, of which there is a tidy plot in Volume 1. American Poetry's near hundred pages of "Biographical Notes" offer...
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Adelaide Crapsey
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Adelaide Crapsey , 1878-1914, American poet, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Vassar, 1901; daughter of Algernon Sidney Crapsey. After teaching in girls' schools she became an instructor at Smith...
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Crapsey, Adelaide
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Crapsey, Adelaide (1878–1914), author of a slender volume, Verse (1915), written in the last year of her brief life. Of her fastidious...
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Webster, Jean
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...sentimental, humorous story of orphanage life, and the Patty series about a young college girl. The prototype of the heroine of both the novel and the series is said to have been her friend Adelaide Crapsey, whose Verse she edited (1915).
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