![]() ![]() See Charles Beecher Hogan's A Bibliography of Edwin Arlington Robinson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1936) for a chronology, a list of publications, and an index of poems with dates. Where flash the legions of the sun, You fadeas if the last of days. Old bones of warriors under ground, Far now from all the bannered ways. Hermann Hagedorn's Edwin Arlington Robinson: a Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1938 PS 3535 O25Z67 Robarts Library) is the standard life. Dark hills at evening in the west, Where sunset hovers like a sound. He died of cancer in hospital in New York on April 6, 1935. Robinson never married but enjoyed the company of many friends. The last two of these won Pulitzer Prizes in 19, when he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Arts and Letters. Although best known for his short poems, long poems such as Captain Craig (1902), Lancelot (1920), The Man Who Died Twice (1924), and Tristram (1927) earned him acclaim from his peers. To make you see but you are blind You cannot leave it long enough. ![]() His Collected Poems in 1922 received the Pulitzer Prize and earned him a degree as Doctor of Literature at Yale University. He resided in rooms at boarding houses in New York and Yonkers, at the Hotel Judson on Washington Square, in Brooklyn at 810 Washington Ave., and at last on West 42nd Street. Robinson earned a small living first as a subway inspector and then in the city's customs office. For the rest of his life he moved in New York and devoted his life to writing poetry. ![]() 22, 1869, at Head Tide in Maine and until 1897 lived at the family home in Gardiner, Maine, aside from several years as a student at Harvard University. Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on Dec. ![]()
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