Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Edwin Arlington Robinson was a poet who has long been popular among lay readers-the "non-literary" public-but the tremendous scope of his work and the power of his mastery over words marks him as one of the greater poets of his time." In spite of its consistent tone his works showed a great versatility. (Heiney pg. 244) Robinson was a poet of true vision and unimpeachable honesty. (Louis pg. 5) He was a man who loved words. Shy and almost wholly inarticulate he wrote with great labor and absorption. (Louis pg. 20) Robinson was a late romantic, a Victorian, a transcendentalist whose lust after the abstract was nearly destructive. (Louis pg. 15) Robinson was a nineteenth-century product and a scion of New England stock. (Louis pg. 13) Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in the tiny village of Head Tide, Maine in 1869, at the very dawn of the Gilded Age. (Louis pg. 8) His family was old and respected; he was descended on his mother's side from a colonial governor of Massachusetts and from a sister of the poetess Ann Bradstreet. (Heiney pg. 248) Robinson was the youngest of three children. His Mother, Mary Elizabeth Palmer, was a woman of some literary taste, though perhaps one may feel free
Heiney, Donald. Recent American Literature to 1930. New York: Barron's Coffin, R.P.T. New Poetry of New England: Frost and Robinson. Baltimore: John Hagedorn, Hermann. Edwin Arlington Robinson. New York: Macmillan, 1938. Traditional Poet. Berkley: University of California Press, 1954. Barnard, Ellsworth. Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Study. New Haven: Yale
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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