Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Edwin Arlington Robinson was a poet who has long been popular among lay readers-the "non-literary" public-but the tremendous scope of his work and the power of his mastery over words marks him as one of the greater poets of his time." In spite of its consistent tone his works showed a great versatility. (Heiney pg. 244) Robinson was a poet of true vision and unimpeachable honesty. (Louis pg. 5) He was a man who loved words. Shy and almost wholly inarticulate he wrote with great labor and absorption. (Louis pg. 20) Robinson was a late romantic, a Victorian, a transcendentalist whose lust after the abstract was nearly destructive. (Louis pg. 15) Robinson was a nineteenth-century product and a scion of New England stock. (Louis pg. 13) Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in the tiny village of Head Tide, Maine in 1869, at the very dawn of the Gilded Age. (Louis pg. 8) His family was old and respected; he was descended on his mother's side from a colonial governor of Massachusetts and from a sister of the poetess Ann Bradstreet. (Heiney pg. 248) Robinson was the youngest of three children. His Mother, Mary Elizabeth Palmer, was a woman of some literary taste, though perhaps one may feel free
After "Tristram" he wrote for eight more years, releasing one poem during each year. New York: Barron'sEducational Series, 1973. 248) Harvard was also great for Robinson in another way; following a period of isolation after his graduation from high school, Harvard came as both deliverer and savior. "Critics argue that Robinson's philosophy of "immediate pessimism plus ultimate optimism" is a result of his New England heritage, with its firmly imbedded Calvinistic doctrine modified by the later mysticism of the Emersonian transcendentalists. Berkley: University of California Press, 1954. 13) The majority of Robinson's poems are reflections of his own life. 9) Robinson would, later in life, be forced to break the ties that he has in Gardiner and move to New York so that he may further pursue his writing career. 45) Robinson's first success came in 1902 with "Captain Craig".
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