Title: Robinson : poems /
Authors: Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935; Donaldson, Scott, 1928-2020
Publisher: A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc.,
Year: 2007
Subjects: American poetry
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Oh for a poet -- From THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT (1897): Dear friends -- Aaron Stark -- The house on the hill -- John Evereldown -- Luke Havergal -- The clerks -- The pity of the leaves -- The tavern -- Two men -- Romance -- Reuben Bright -- Fleming Helphenstine -- Richard Cory -- Cliff Klingenhagen -- Zola -- Verlaine -- George Crabbe -- Credo -- From CAPTAIN CRAIG (1902): Captain Craig (beginning) -- The return of Morgan and Fingal -- Isaac and Archibald -- Aunt Imogen -- The growth of "Lorraine" -- The woman and the wife -- Cortege -- Erasmus -- Partnership -- Variations of Greek themes: I.A happy man -- II. A mighty runner -- IV. Eutychides -- VIII. The old story -- From THE TOWN DOWN THE RIVER (1910): Calverly's -- Leffingwell -- Clavering -- Lingard and the stars -- The white lights -- Pasa Thalassa Thalassa -- Uncle Ananias -- Leonora -- Exit -- How Annandale went out -- Alma mater -- The whip -- Miniver cheevy -- For a dead lady -- Two gardens in Linndale -- From THE MAN AGAINST THE SKY (1916): Flammonde -- The gift of God -- Old King Cole -- The clinging vine -- Cassandra -- John Gorham -- Veterans sirens -- Hillcrest -- Ben Jonson entertains a man from Stratford -- Eros Turannos -- The poor relation -- Llewellyn and the tree -- Bewick finzer -- Bokardo -- From LANCELOT (1920): Lancelot (ending) -- From THE THREE TAVERNS (1920): The wandering Jew -- The mill -- The dark hills -- Tact -- John Brown -- The rat -- A song at Shannon's -- Tasker Norcross -- Firelight -- An evangelist's wife -- Late summer -- From AVON'S HARVEST (1921): Mr. Flood's party -- Ben Tovato -- The tree in Pamela's garden -- Vain gratuities -- Lost anchors -- Caput mortuum -- The long race -- Many are called -- Rembrandt to Rembrandt -- From Periodicals (1923): Silver street -- New England -- Karma -- The sheaves.