Edwin Arlington Robinson
Noun
Meaning
United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935)
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In the whole period, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Edwin Arlington Robinson and Robert Frost, the greatest American poet is Stuart Merrill.
1920s * 1922 : Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson * 1923 : The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922.
In The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, editors Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair compared and contrasted Frost's unique style to the work of the poet Edwin Arlington Robinson since they both frequently used New England settings for their poems.
Edwin Arlington Robinson won three prizes during the 1920s and several people have won two.