Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life

Scott Donaldson

February, 2007
Cloth, 568 pages, 89 photographs
ISBN: 978-0-231-13842-0
$36.00 / £25.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. A Hell of a Name for a Poet

2. A Manor Town in Maine

3. Never So Young Again

4. Fall of the House of Robinson

5. A “Special” at Harvard

6. Farewell to Carefree Days

7. Shaping a Life

8. Loves Lost

9. Breaking Away

10. Poetry as a Calling

11. City of Artists

12. The Saga of Captain Craig

13. Down and Out

14. Theater Days

15. The End of Something

16. Down and Out, Yet Again

17. Life in the Woods, Death in Boston

18. Reversal of Fortune

19. A Poet Once Again

20. A Breakthrough Book

21. Reaching Fifty

22. Seasons of Success

23. A Sojourn in England

24. MacDowell’s First Citizen

25. Recognition and Its Consequences

26. Generosities

27. Death of a Poet

28. Beyond the Sunset

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• American Literature

About the Author

Scott Donaldson is one of the nation's leading literary biographers. He has written and edited a number of books, including Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott; By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway; Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald; John Cheever: A Biography; Archibald MacLeish: An American Life; and Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald.

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