Edwin Arlington Robinson (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
The son of Mary Elizabeth Palmer and Edward Robinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on December 22, 1869, in Head Tide, Maine. Although he grew up in the small-town environment of Gardiner, Maine, fortunate childhood friends led to the cultivation of his taste for poetry and the classics. Robinson fell in love with Emma Shepherd in 1887 but encouraged her to marry his brother in 1890 in part because he felt that his devotion to writing would be unfair to her.
While Robinson attended Harvard University between 1891 and 1893, his father's death in 1892 and...
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