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 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 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.
Download or read book Edwin Arlington Robinson written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Traditional yet original, realistic but not in the reductive sense, he is too good to be forgotten.' ROBERTSON DAVIES Robinson's Arthurian poems, published between 1917 and 1927, won him a Pulitzer prize and yet are almost unknown today. With his introspective New England style and quiet tone, he brilliantly catches the tension between reason and passion that drives the characters of the Arthurian stories: these are modern lovers, with the philosophical and psychological concerns of the early 20th century. The sense of vision, and the feeling that the world of Arthur mirrors the fate of all mankind, binds the diverse characters together, and makes Robinson's poems essential reading for everyone interested in the Arthurian legend in the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Man Against the Sky A Book of Poems written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Arlington Robinson's lyrical poetry invites readers to explore the depths of the human soul. With classic American literature and poetry at its core, this collection delves into themes of introspection, identity, and the human condition. It's a poetic journey that resonates with lovers of profound verse.
Download or read book Edwin Arlington Robinson s Letters to Edith Brower written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 189 hitherto unpublished letters by Edwin Arlington Robinson. They were written between 1897 and 1930 to one of his first admirers, Edith Brower of Pennsylvania. The letters begin when the twenty-seven-year-old poet writes gratefully to the stranger who has expressed appreciation of his first, privately printed, book of poems, The Torrent and the Night Before. Soon he was carrying on an intense correspondence, baring his soul--safely, he believed, because the woman he described as "infernally bright and not at all ugly," with "something of a literary reputation," was "too old to give me a chance to bother myself with any sentimental uneasiness." (She was twenty-one years his senior.) Continually reflecting his laconic, self-deprecating Yankee spirit, the letters range from the uncontrollable outpourings of a lonely individual, desperate for encouragement and understanding, to brief words of greeting or farewell. Without reserve, Robinson--who was eventually awarded the Pulitzer prize for poetry three times--confides his reactions to people and places, his thoughts about his own work, and his personal opinions of such writers as Browning, Dickens, Hardy, Moody, and Pater. Mr. Cary has included Miss Brower's unpublished memoir on the poet's character and literary career, "Memories of Edwin Arlington Robinson," and her penetrating review of The Children of the Night. In addition to an informative Introduction, he contributes full explanatory notes, a list of Robinson's works, and an index.
Download or read book Merlin written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edwin Arlington Robinson written by Scott Donaldson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poetry rings with a lyrical and emotional purity and singularity that should assure his place as one of the treasured poets of his generation ... Scott Donaldson's book should help to revive appreciation for this solitary figure and the unique resonance of his work. --W.S. Merwin.
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: Edwin Arlington Robinson's finely crafted, formal rhythms mirror the tension the poet sees between life's immutable circumstances and humanity's often tragic attempts to exert control. At once dramatic and witty, his poems lay bare the loneliness and despair of life in genteel small towns, the tyranny of love, and unspoken, unnoticed suffering. The fictional characters he created in "Ruben Bright," "Miniver Cheevy," and "Richard Cory," and the historical figures he brought to life--Lincoln in "The Master" and the great painter in "Rembrandt to Rembrandt"--harbor demons and passions the world treats with indifference or cruelty. With an introduction that sheds light on Robinson's influence on poets from Eliot and Pound to Frost and Berryman, this collection bring an unjustly neglected poet to a new generation of readers.
Download or read book Selected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain Craig written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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.
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Town Down the River written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children of the Night written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Children of the Night '' is a collection of poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson a Pulitzer-winning American Poet. Its content includes: The Children of the Night - Three Quatrains - The World - An Old Story - Ballade of a Ship - Ballade by the Fire - Ballade of Broken Flutes - Ballade of Dead Friends - Her Eyes - Two Men - Villanelle of Change - John Evereldown - Luke Havergal - The House on the Hill - Richard Cory - Two Octaves - Calvary - Dear Friends - The Story of Ashes and the Flame - For Some Poem by Mathew Arnold - Amaryllis - Kosmos - Zola - The Piety of Leaves - Aaron Stark - The Garden - Cliff Klingenhagen - Charles Carvilles - Eyes -The Dead Village - Boston - Two Sonnets - The Clarks- Fleming Helphenstine - For a Book by Thomas Hardy -Thomas Hardy - The Miracle - Horace to Lueconoe - Rueben Bright - The Alter - The Tavern - Sonnet-George Crabbe-Credo- On the Night of a Friend Wedding - Sonnet-Verlaine - Sonnet-Supremacy - The Night Before - Walt Whitman - The Chorus of Old Men in " Aegeus"- The Wilderness - Octaves - Two Quatrains.
