[New-Poetry] E. A. Robinson, new biography & Gardiner Public Library website

[TheOldMole]

 From Donaldson:

As the poet Winfield Townley Scott observed in his notebooks, there are 
basically two kinds of poetry. One is represented by Hart Crane's line 
"The seal's wide spindrift gaze toward paradise," the other by 
Robinson's "And he was all alone there when he died." One is a magic 
gesture of language, the other "a commentary on human life so 
concentrated as to give off considerable pressure."



jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/publicity/donaldsonexcerpt.html
>  
> This book derives from the conviction that Edwin Arlington Robinson 
> was a great American poet and an exceptionally fine human being. The 
> story of his life deserves telling and has not been told.
> Robinson was born December 22, 1869, at Head Tide, Maine, and died in 
> New York City on April 5, 1935. He grew up during the latter days of 
> the Victorians—Tennyson, Browning, Arnold—in England and the Fireside 
> Poets—Longfellow, Lowell, Bryant—in the United States. But the energy 
> was waning, and by the turn of the century most poetry had degenerated 
> into prettified evocations of the natural world. From the start, 
> Robinson declared his independence from that genteel tradition. A few 
> others joined him, among them in England A. E. Housman, whose A 
> Shropshire Lad appeared in the same year—1896—as EAR's first volume, 
> The Torrent and the Night Before. Among the British poets Robinson 
> most admired, Housman (1859-1935) was a decade older than he, Thomas 
> Hardy (1840-1928) a generation his senior, and Rudyard Kipling 
> (1865-1936) his near contemporary. Robinson, who was to become our 
> first truly modern poet, goes back a long way in time.
>  
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> I was in Maine a couple weeks ago and saw there was celebration at the 
> Gardiner Public Library. But I wasn't able to make any of the events. 
> Here's the library's website devoted to poet:
>  
> http://www.earobinson.com/
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