Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-535) and index.
A hell of a name for a poet -- A manor town in Maine -- Never so young again -- Fall of the house of Robinson -- A "special" at Harvard -- Farewell to carefree days -- Shaping a life -- Loves lost -- Breaking away -- Poetry as a calling -- city of artists -- The saga of Captain Craig -- Down and out -- Theater days -- The end of something -- Down and out, yet again -- Life in the woods, death in Boston -- Reversal of fortune -- A poet once again -- A breakthrough book -- Reaching fifty -- Seasons of success -- A sojourn in England -- MacDowell's first citizen -- Recognition and its consequences -- Generosities -- Death of a poet -- Beyond the sunset.
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At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens. 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. Born 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.
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