virtues are apparent in "Things of. August VII." There the poet climbs down from his perspective of his own whole view of man, down from his.

things about Robinson. First a poet must be an interpreter of life; his vi- sion must penetrate; and he must ob- jectify what he sees. Secondly he must deal ...

poetry, which is not small, there is no remnant of nineteenth-century lyricism and the personal song. He never approaches poetry from the point of view of ...

intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends and home and laws and faith, as the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony.

The poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, son of Edward and Mary. (Palmer) Robinson, was born at the village of Head Tide, Maine, on December 22, 1869.

... British poetry for two and a half centuries ... America's art poets had for two centuries been ... The first thing one needs to note about this poem is that Mr.

harder to make sense of Robinson's poems. Thus the survey course finds it expedient to consider them as more or less adequate vehi- cles for big ideas about ...

These intertextual relationships suggest that the poems in Lyrical Tales are themselves a self-defense? Robinson's assertion of her literary debt and her poetic ...

that the whole temple of man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins-all these things,.