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Edwin Arlington Robinson
The American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in 1869 in the Maine village of Head Tide and spent his school days in nearby Gardiner. Robinson developed a love of poetry in h...view moreThe American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in 1869 in the Maine village of Head Tide and spent his school days in nearby Gardiner. Robinson developed a love of poetry in his youth, a love that endured until his death in New York in 1935. Robinson attended Harvard during 1891-1893 and published some of his early poetry in The Harvard Advocate. Although committed to becoming a writer, his path would not be an easy one. Income from Robinson's chosen pursuit was insufficient to maintain his modest lifestyle, much less meet his various responsibilities, and he worked at times as a secretary, a time-keeper, and a customs clerk, all the while continuing to write. After years of relative obscurity, he secured some incremental recognition with the publication of his poetry collections The Children of the Night, The Town Down the River, and The Man Against the Sky. During the First World War and in the decade that followed, Robinson composed a cycle of epic narrative poems, written in blank verse, that were modern in style but drew upon classic themes in substance. Against the unfolding tragedy of a world at war, Robinson composed a trilogy based on the legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. The trilogy included Merlin (1917), Lancelot (1920), and Tristram (1927). During the same period, Edwin Arlington Robinson would win the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry twice; first for his Collected Poems (published in 1921), and again for The Man Who Died Twice (published in 1924). With Tristram, he would at last reap hard-won financial rewards for his literary labors. Edwin Arlington Robinson's Arthurian cycle reflects the poet's most mature work.view less
Books by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Children of the Night Avon's Harvest (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCollected Poems (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Children of the Night (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Three Taverns: A Book of Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Works of Edwin Arlington Robinson Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Man Against the Sky Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Three Taverns Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMerlin A Poem Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Children of the Night Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Three Taverns: A Book of Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Audiobooks by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Merlin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMan Against the Sky: A Book of Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe House on the Hill Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Man Against the Sky Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaptain Craig Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThree Taverns: A Book of Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Town Down the River Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Children of the Night Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Children of the Night Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAvon's Harvest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRichard Cory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings