The
Writers
Edwin Arlington Robinson
(1869-1935)
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Known for poems that portray the tortured
lives of ordinary people, Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in Head Tide,
Maine on December 22, 1869. Shortly after his birth his family moved
to Gardiner, Maine, which became the the model for Tilbury Town, the setting
for many of his poems. Robinson attended Harvard from 1891-1893, but he
death of his father in 1892 and the financial panic of 1893 forced Robinson
to drop out of Harvard and led to a dark period during which his
family was bankrupted, his brother became a morphine addict and his mother
died of diphtheria. During this period Robinson worked on the poems
that were published in The Torrent and the Night Before (1896) and
The
Children of the Night (1897), which included one of Robinson's most
famous poems, Richard Corey. In 1899 Robinson moved to New
York City where he worked in the custom's office and as a subway inspector.
Robinson's first major publishing success was The Man Against the Sky
(1916).
Robinson was widely regarded as America's greatest poet during his lifetime,
receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for Collected Poems (1921)
in 1925 for The Man Who Died Twice (1924); and in 1928 for Tristram
(1927).
For the last 25 years of his life Robinson spent his summers at the MacDowell
Colony.
Works include: Merlin (1917): Lancelot (1920); Roman
Bartholow (1923); and Matthias at the Door (1931). |
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