Flammonde

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 283 words | Copyright

Flammonde, poem in iambic pentameter couplets by E.A. Robinson, published in The Man Against the Sky (1916). It describes the mysterious elderly citizen of Tilbury Town, Flammonde, who, although outwardly a failure, is a constant source of sympathy for the town's troubled and needy.

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