Edwin Arlington Robinson

Cunningham said of Edwin Arlington Robinson is equally true of Updike: “Though he wrote too much, he wrote much that was distinctive and good, and even in the dull wastes there are fragments.”

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Cunningham said of Edwin Arlington Robinson is equally true of Updike: “Though he wrote too much, he wrote much that was distinctive and good, and even in the dull wastes there are fragments.”

Reconsidering Updike 2009

But Clinton ended up a bit like the character in the poem "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

We’re Heading Left Once Again 2008

Although these poems were written in rhymed meters, their radical imagery and subject matter make them highly experimental, particularly when put into the context of poets such as Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, and Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Djuna Barnes greenintegerblog 2008

Clinton claims (to groans all around) that he doesn't stop thinking about tomorrow, but he's also a bit like "Miniver Cheevy" in the poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson - "born too late" for Camelot romance, when "swords were bright and steeds were prancing."

Shooting The Moon 2008

There is no reason why they should, but they ought to have heard of Edwin Arlington Robinson.

A Great Twentieth-Century Poet Simic, Charles 2007

Great Regulars: The poet, Edwin Arlington Robinson, has composed nearly perfect poem in its truth about life, its sense of the nature of human personalities, its rhythm, its rime scheme, and it does all this while remaining quite literal without one metaphor or simile.

Great Regulars: The poet, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Rus Bowden 2007

Who are your favorite writers? among them, Freud, Helen Keller, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Proust Questionnaire: Jasper Johns 2007

Emily Dickinson must be provided with obscure lovers to 'explain' her poetry, and last year there appeared a dotty book on Edwin Arlington Robinson demonstrating that his poems are mainly about a hopeless love for his sister-in-law.

Hardly Hardy Howe, Irving 1966

You know that poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Rabbi?

Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry Kemelman, Harry 1966