The Man against the Sky [20]
1897;
"Captain Craig", 1902; "The Town Down the River", 1910;
"The Man against the Sky", 1916; "Merlin", 1917; and "Launcelot", 1920.
The last-named volume was awarded a prize of five hundred dollars,
given by The Lyric Society for the best book manuscript offered to it in 1919.
In addition to his work in poetry, Mr. Robinson has written two prose plays,
"Van Zorn", and "The Porcupine".
In "American Poetry Since 1900", Louis Untermeyer notes, "his name was known
only to a few of the literati until Theodore Roosevelt . . .
acclaimed and aided him." Rittenhouse's Biographical Notes (above quoted)
contain this entry immediately before Edwin Arlington Robinson's:
"Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt. . . . Mrs. Robinson, who is a sister
to Col. Theodore Roosevelt, . . . has written several volumes of verse. . . ."
It is always interesting to see the coincidence of events in history,
and it is worth asking if this was not even a causal relationship. -- A. L.
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"Captain Craig", 1902; "The Town Down the River", 1910;
"The Man against the Sky", 1916; "Merlin", 1917; and "Launcelot", 1920.
The last-named volume was awarded a prize of five hundred dollars,
given by The Lyric Society for the best book manuscript offered to it in 1919.
In addition to his work in poetry, Mr. Robinson has written two prose plays,
"Van Zorn", and "The Porcupine".
In "American Poetry Since 1900", Louis Untermeyer notes, "his name was known
only to a few of the literati until Theodore Roosevelt . . .
acclaimed and aided him." Rittenhouse's Biographical Notes (above quoted)
contain this entry immediately before Edwin Arlington Robinson's:
"Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt. . . . Mrs. Robinson, who is a sister
to Col. Theodore Roosevelt, . . . has written several volumes of verse. . . ."
It is always interesting to see the coincidence of events in history,
and it is worth asking if this was not even a causal relationship. -- A. L.
End