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" Edwin Arlington Robinson : "
Scott Donaldson.
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BL
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1012017
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b766387
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| Main Entry
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Donaldson, Scott,1928-
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Edwin Arlington Robinson : : a poet's life /\ Scott Donaldson.
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New York ;Chichester :: Columbia University Press,, [2007]
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1 online resource (vi, 553 pages) :: illustrations
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0231510993
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: 9780510990
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0231138423 (hbk.)
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9780231138420 (hbk.)
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9780510998 (ebk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-535) and index.
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| Contents
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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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Robinson, Edwin Arlington,1869-1935.
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Robinson, Edwin Arlington,1869-1935.
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Poets, American-- 20th century, Biography.
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Poets, American-- 20th century.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Personal Memoirs.
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POETRY-- American-- General.
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Poets, American.
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| Dewey Classification
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811.52
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PS3535.O25Z645 2007eb
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