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Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
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. Eve...more
"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. Eve...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
February 6th 2007
by Everyman's Library
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Edwin Arlington Robinson is the quintessential American poet. His character studies examine the essence of what it means to be a New Englander.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. Robinson was born in Head Tide, Lincoln County, Maine, but his family moved to Gardiner, Maine, in 1870. He described his childhood in Maine as "stark and unhappy"
Robinson's early difficulties led many of his poems to have a dark pessimism and his stories to deal with "an American dream gone awry".
In 1896 he...more
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Robinson's early difficulties led many of his poems to have a dark pessimism and his stories to deal with "an American dream gone awry".
In 1896 he...more
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