`Edwin Arlington Robinson': A poet's life that's worth resurrecting.("Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life")(Book review)

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) | May 9, 2007| | Copyright

Byline: Patrick Kurp

"Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life" by Scott Donaldson; Columbia University Press ($34.95)

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Like many readers of a certain age, I first learned of Edwin Arlington Robinson not in the classroom, but by way of Simon and Garfunkel.

A solemnly earnest arrangement of his "greatest hit" from 1897, "Richard Cory," appeared on "Sounds of Silence, the duo's 1966 album, and the melodrama of the final lines impressed my adolescent sensibility. It also left me with the unearned conviction that Robinson was a hack, a ...

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