Download or read book Edwin Arlington Robinson written by Scott Donaldson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens. In this biography, Scott Donaldson tells the intriguing story of this poet's life, based in large part on a previously unavailable trove of more than 3,000 personal letters, and recounts his profoundly important role in the development of modern American literature. Born in 1869, the youngest son of a well-to-do family in Gardiner, Maine, Robinson had two brothers: Dean, a doctor who became a drug addict, and Herman, an alcoholic who squandered the family fortune. Robinson never married, but he fell in love as many as three times, most lastingly with the woman who would become his brother Herman's wife. Despite his shyness, Robinson made many close friends, and he repeatedly went out of his way to give them his support and encouragement. Still, it was always poetry that drove him. He regarded writing poems as nothing less than his calling-what he had been put on earth to do. Struggling through long years of poverty and neglect, he achieved a voice and a subject matter all his own. He was the first to write about ordinary people and events-an honest butcher consumed by grief, a miser with "eyes like little dollars in the dark," ancient clerks in a dry goods store measuring out their days like bolts of cloth. In simple yet powerful rhetoric, he explored the interior worlds of the people around him. Robinson was a major poet and a pivotal figure in the course of modern American literature, yet over the years his reputation has declined. With his biography, Donaldson returns this remarkable talent to the pantheon of great American poets and sheds new light on his enduring legacy.

Download or read book The children of the night written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Introduction to Edwin Arlington Robinson written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Edwin Arlington Robinson written by Ellsworth Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robinson had an organic and ineradicable need to embody in verse his response to the world of which he found himself a part. It was his passion to write poetry that destroyed any potential leaning toward other occupations.

Download or read book Robinson Poems written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the first of the great American modernist poets."No poet ever understood loneliness and separateness better than Robinson," James Dickey has observed. Robinson's lyric poems illuminate the hearts and minds of the most unlikely subjects—the downtrodden, the bereft, and the misunderstood. Even while writing in meter and rhyme, he used everyday language with unprecedented power, wit, and sensitivity. With his keen understanding of ordinary people and a gift for harnessing the rhythms of conversational speech, Robinson created the vivid character portraits for which he is best known, among them "Aunt Imogen," "Isaac and Archibald," "Miniver Cheevy," and "Richard Cory." Most of his poems are set in the fictive Tilbury Town—based on his boyhood home of Gardiner, Maine—but his work reaches far beyond its particular locality in its focus on struggle and redemption in human experience.

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Download or read book Edwin Arlington Robinson written by Mark Van Doren and published by New York : Literary Guild of America. This book was released on 1927 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fotografia de Edwin Arligton Robinson.

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Download or read book Tilbury Town written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Edwin Arlington Robinson Child of Scorn written by Alexander Grinstein and published by . This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Arlington Robinson: Child of Scorn examines from a psychological standpoint Robinson's works and their relation to his own life. Robinson was a famous American poet, the winner of three Pulitzer prizes for poetry. In addition to his major works, he is particularly well-known for his short poems, including Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy, which many people memorized in school. Robinson was born in 1869 and died in 1935. His life was a troubled one. His emotional problems and conflicts as reflected in his work are carefully analyzed in this book.

Download or read book Miniver Cheevy and Other Poems written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: [New York]: Macmillan Company, 1922.

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Penguin Classic A best seller in his lifetime though neglected in recent years, Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) is due to be restored to his rightful place in literary history as one of the first great American Modernist poets. His poetry was revolutionary, though it looked deceptively conventional because it was written in metre and rhyme. He cast aside the stiff archaism and prettiness favoured by his contemporaries, instead employing everyday language with dramatic power, wit, and sensitivity. His lyric poems illuminate ordinary people, especially the downtrodden, the bereft, and the mistunderstood. In the process he created the gallery of character portraits for which he is most fondly remembered, among them Eben Flood, Aunt Imogen, Isaac and Archibald, Miniver Cheevy and Richard Cory. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.