Edwin arlington robinson brief biography of thomas
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Biography of Edwin Arlington Robinson
by Danny D. Smith,
Chairman, Special Collections Committee, Gardiner Library Association
Mary Elizabeth (Palmer) Robinson (), mother of Edwin Arlington Robinson. |
Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in the village of Head Tide in the town of Alna, Maine, on December 22, , third son of Edward and Mary Elizabeth (Palmer) Robinson. Because his mother had expected a daughter, no male name had been selected for a possible son. The following summer when the family vacationed at a resort in Harpswell, Maine, the ladies on the verandah challenged her to name the baby. The ladies placed names in a lottery, and the name drawn was “Edwin.” Because the lady who proposed “Edwin” as a name was from Arlington, Massachusetts, baby Robinson became Edwin Arlington Robinson, a name that was anathema to him throughout his life. He hated the family’s habit of calling him “Win,” and as an adult he always signed himself as “E. A.”
Edward• Edwin Arlington Robinson ( - )Edwin Arlington Robinson was a poet of transition. He lived at the time following the Civil War when America was rebuilding and changing rapidly and when the dominant values of the country seemed to be growing increasingly materialistic. Robinson's poetry was transitional, evaluating the present by using traditional forms and by including elements of transcendentalism and puritanism. Robinson spent his childhood in a small town in Maine, a town which furnished him a setting for many of his poems as well as models for his characters. His father was a prosperous merchant; his mother had been a schoolteacher. The parents were primarily interested in their two older sons and tended to ignore Edwin, though they recognized his exceptional intelligence. While fond of his family, Edwin felt himself an outsider among them, as he also felt alienated from the society of his town. Robinson studied at Harvard from to and afterward returned to Maine to sta • On månad 22nd, , Edwin Arlington Robinson was born to Edwin Robinson and Mary Elizabeth Palmer in Head Tide, Maine. Growing up he lived in a town on the Kennecbec River called Gardiner, Maine. In a lot of his later poetry he bases a fictional town, Tilbury Town, on Gardiner. His family, which also consisted of two other brothers, lived moderately on his father's income, who worked as an important timber merchant. Robinson started seriously writing poetry at age 11, and was a talented writer for someone his age. | Despite his father's wishes, Robinson attended Harvard for two years, but had to leave because his family's money was running short. In his father died, resulting in Robinson and his family becoming ganska poor. Later in his mother died of a serious illness. Some of Robinson's poetry grew from these unfortunate incidents. After leaving Harvard, Robinson moved to New York City, and lived in Greenwich Village, in a house where many other artists and writer |