LEADER 04596nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910451691703321 005 20210527030618.0 010 $a0-231-51099-3 024 7 $a10.7312/dona13842 035 $a(CKB)1000000000474435 035 $a(EBL)908449 035 $a(OCoLC)818855967 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000144398 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12038105 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000144398 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10146471 035 $a(PQKB)10939592 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908449 035 $a(DE-B1597)458811 035 $a(OCoLC)1013962573 035 $a(OCoLC)1037971013 035 $a(OCoLC)1041983634 035 $a(OCoLC)1046606499 035 $a(OCoLC)1047005555 035 $a(OCoLC)1049624449 035 $a(OCoLC)1054863575 035 $a(OCoLC)703219843 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231510998 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908449 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183595 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL666628 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000474435 100 $a20060509d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEdwin Arlington Robinson$b[electronic resource] $ea poet's life /$fScott Donaldson 210 $aNew York ;$aChichester $cColumbia University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (1107 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-35346-8 311 0 $a0-231-13842-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [517]-535) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. A Hell of a Name for a Poet --$t2. A Manor Town in Maine --$t3. Never So Young Again --$t4. Fall of the House of Robinson --$t5. A "Special" at Harvard --$t6. Farewell to Carefree Days --$t7. Shaping a Life --$t8. Loves Lost --$t9. Breaking Away --$t10. Poetry as a Calling --$t11. City of Artists --$t12. The Saga of Captain Craig --$t13. Down and Out --$t14. Theater Days --$t15. The End of Something --$t16. Down and Out, Yet Again --$t17. Life in the Woods, Death in Boston --$t18. Reversal of Fortune --$t19. A Poet Once Again --$t20. A Breakthrough Book --$t21. Reaching Fifty --$t22. Seasons of Success --$t23. A Sojourn in England --$t24. MacDowell's First Citizen --$t25. Recognition and its Consequences --$t26. Generosities --$t27. Death of a Poet --$t28. Beyond the Sunset --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAt 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 family fortune. 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. Despite his shyness, Robinson made many close friends, and he repeatedly went out of his way to give them his support and encouragement. Still, it was always poetry that drove him. He regarded writing poems as nothing less than his calling-what he had been put on earth to do. Struggling through long years of poverty and neglect, he achieved a voice and a subject matter all his own. 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. In simple yet powerful rhetoric, he explored the interior worlds of the people around him. Robinson was a major poet and a pivotal figure in the course of modern American literature, yet over the years his reputation has declined. With his biography, Donaldson returns this remarkable talent to the pantheon of great American poets and sheds new light on his enduring legacy. 606 $aPoets, American$y20th century$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoets, American 676 $a811.52 700 $aDonaldson$b Scott$f1928-$033499 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451691703321 996 $aEdwin Arlington Robinson$92474886 997 $aUNINA