![]() ![]() ![]() Gay) Swing, Raymond : 1946 Apr 2 Washington (TLS) T, Charles H. Win also had courted Emma and expected to marry her. With his biography, Donaldson returns this remarkable talent to the pantheon of great American poets and sheds new light on his enduring legacy. Edwin Arlington Robinson is the subject of some correspondence from 19. The second son in the Robinson family, Herman, married Emma Shepherd from Farmingdale. Robinson was a major poet and a pivotal figure in the course of modern American literature, yet over the years his reputation has declined. In simple yet powerful rhetoric, he explored the interior worlds of the people around him. 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. Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet who is best known for his short dramatic poems concerning the people in a small New England village, Tilbury Town, very much like the Gardiner, Maine, in which he grew up. Struggling through long years of poverty and neglect, he achieved a voice and a subject matter all his own. During the last 20 years of his life he became a regular summer resident at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, where several women. He regarded writing poems as nothing less than his calling-what he had been put on earth to do. Still, it was always poetry that drove him. Despite his shyness, Robinson made many close friends, and he repeatedly went out of his way to give them his support and encouragement. 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. ![]() 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.īorn 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. Community Archives Room, Events & Holidays Tags Barbara Walsh, Deborah Gould, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gardiner, Gay Grant, Laura E. At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens. ![]()
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