Robinson: Poems : Poems

by ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTONDONALDSON, SCOTT

ISBN13: 9780307265760

ISBN10: 0307265765

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 2007-02-06

Publisher(s): Everyman's Library

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Summary

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 subjectsthe 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 Townbased on his boyhood home of Gardiner, Mainebut his work reaches far beyond its particular locality in its focus on struggle and redemption in human experience.

Author Biography

Edward Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was one of the first great American modernist poets.

From The children of the night (1897)
Dear friends	p. 19
Aaron Stark	p. 20
The house on the hill	p. 21
John Evereldown	p. 22
Luke Havergal	p. 24
The clerks	p. 26
The pity of the leaves	p. 27
The tavern	p. 28
Two men	p. 29
Romance	p. 30
Reuben Bright	p. 31
Fleming Helphenstine	p. 32
Richard Cory	p. 33
Cliff Klingenhagen	p. 34
Zola	p. 35
Verlaine	p. 36
George Crabbe	p. 37
Credo	p. 38
From Captain Craig (1902)
Captain Craig (beginning)	p. 41
The return of Morgan and Fingal	p. 43
Isaac and Archibald	p. 47
Aunt Imogen	p. 63
The growth of "Lorraine"	p. 69
The woman and the wife	p. 71
Cortege	p. 73
Erasmus	p. 75
Partnership	p. 76
Variations of Greek themes	p. 78
From The town down the river (1910)
Calverly's	p. 83
Leffingwell	p. 85
Clavering	p. 87
Lingard and the stars	p. 90
The white lights	p. 91
Pasa thalassa thalassa	p. 92
Uncle Ananias	p. 95
Leonora	p. 97
Exit	p. 98
How Annandale went out	p. 99
Alma mater	p. 100
The whip	p. 101
Miniver Cheevy	p. 103
For a dead lady	p. 105
Two gardens in Linndale	p. 106
From The man against the sky (1916)
Flammonde	p. 113
The gift of God	p. 117
Old King Cole	p. 119
The clinging vine	p. 123
Cassandra	p. 127
John Gorham	p. 130
Veteran sirens	p. 133
Hillcrest	p. 134
Ben Jonson entertains a man from Stratford	p. 137
Eros Turannos	p. 153
The poor relation	p. 155
Llewellyn and the tree	p. 158
Bewick Finzer	p. 164
Bokardo	p. 166
From Lancelot (1920)
Lancelot (ending)	p. 173
From The three taverns (1920)
The wandering Jew	p. 181
The mill	p. 185
The dark hills	p. 186
Tact	p. 187
John Brown	p. 188
The rat	p. 196
A song at Shannon's	p. 197
Tasker Norcross	p. 198
Firelight	p. 211
An evangelist's wife	p. 212
Late summer	p. 213
From Avon's harvest (1921)
Mr. Flood's party	p. 219
Ben Trovato	p. 222
The tree in Pamela's garden	p. 223
Vain gratuities	p. 224
Lost anchors	p. 225
Caput mortuum	p. 226
The long race	p. 227
Many are called	p. 228
Rembrandt to Rembrandt	p. 229
From periodicals (1923)
Silver Street	p. 245
New England	p. 246
Karma	p. 247
The sheaves	p. 248
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