Edwin Arlington Robinson (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Early in his literary career, well before he gained prominence as a poet, Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote a number of short stories that he planned to incorporate in a volume titled Scattered Lives. The stories do not survive, nor does the novel he tried his hand at writing some years later, but the twenty-six pieces of extant prose were collected by Richard Cary in Uncollected Poems and Prose of Edwin Arlington Robinson (1975). Of interest primarily for what they reveal of the life of this most private man, these undistinguished prose pieces...

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