Robinson: Poems: Edited by Scott Donaldson (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) - Hardcover

Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307265765 ISBN 13: 9780307265760

Publisher: Everyman's Library USA, 2007

Synopsis

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. 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 Town--based on his boyhood home of Gardiner, Maine--but his work reaches far beyond its particular locality in its focus on struggle and redemption in human experience.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Everyman's Library USA
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307265765
• ISBN 13: 9780307265760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Donaldson Scott