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...EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (318 pp.)-Ellsworth Barnard-Macmillan...
...months after her son's birth in December 1869, Mrs. Robinson of Head Tide, Me. had not got around to naming the baby, her third. Distressed by this, a lady from Arlington, Mass, suggested picking a name from a hat. Out of the hat came a slip marked "Edwin." Well pleased, Mother Robinson tacked on "Arlington" in honor of the lady from Massachusetts, and Edwin Arlington Robinson was tagged with the first of many labels...
...Failure" was one of the tags he applied to himself for a long time. "Poet" was another, but Edwin Arlington Robinson was 53 before the U.S. recognized that he was a major...
...Optimist. Edwin Arlington Robinson was the only sizable poet the U.S. had between Emily Dickinson and the poetic renaissance around World War I sparked by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters. Robinson found the poetic landscape "flowing with milk and water." He injected the gall & wormwood of realism. In general, he celebrated the individual, not by tracking the footprints of great men, but by tracing the soul-prints of weak ones. The Miniver Cheevys, the Richard Corys, the fumblers, the failures, the souses were not freaks to him but symbols of man's suffering...
This glassware is sold only at SHREVE, CRUMP, and LOW'S at Boylston and Arlington Streets in Boston. It goes for $6.00. Shreve's invites you to come in to browse among their different items for ideas on that little gift that must be just right...