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Article: The enduring specter of E.A. Robinson.
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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It has been a long while--seventy-two years, to be exact--since Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) was hailed in his obituaries as America's foremost poet. In recent times, his work has been tacitly dismissed as old hat. Few current candidates for MFA degrees in creative writing, I suspect, have ventured any deeper into it than "Miniver Cheevy" and "Richard Cory"--items still, as the poet himself remarked, "pickled in anthological brine." Even back in his critical study of 1969, Ellsworth Barnard was sadly marveling that in the thirty years following the poet's death his name and fame had suffered a "slow return to obscurity." Ever since, that process seems only to have ...
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