Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in 1869 in Head Tide, Maine, the third son of a family that had hoped for a daughter and chose his first name by drawing lots. He grew up in Gardiner, which he would turn into his imaginary town, and left Harvard in 1893 when his family was ruined; his two brothers would die before him, in 1899 and 1909. He lived in poverty in New York until Theodore Roosevelt, having read his verse, obtained a customs post for him in 1905. He spent every summer at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, received three Pulitzer Prizes and died in New York in 1935.

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• PoetryThe Man Against the SkyEdwin Arlington Robinson · 1916Literature