![]() ![]() Robinson was also awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Collected Poems (1921) in 1922 and The Man Who Died Twice (1924) in 1925. He also composed a trilogy based on Arthurian legends: Merlin (1917), Lancelot (1920), and Tristram (1927), which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1928. ![]() Robinson’s first major success was The Man Against the Sky (1916). Robinson dedicated his next work, The Town Down the River (1910), to Roosevelt. Customs House, a job he held from 1905 to 1910. Roosevelt also offered Robinson a sinecure in a U.S. This work received little attention until President Theodore Roosevelt wrote a magazine article praising it and Robinson. In 1902, he published Captain Craig and Other Poems. Unable to make a living by writing, he got a job as an inspector for the New York City subway system. Robinson privately printed and released his first volume of poetry, The Torrent and the Night Before, in 1896 at his own expense this collection was extensively revised and published in 1897 as The Children of the Night. After high school, Robinson spent two years studying at Harvard University as a special student and his first poems were published in the Harvard Advocate. ![]() Robinson described his childhood as stark and unhappy he once wrote in a letter to Amy Lowell that he remembered wondering why he had been born at the age of six. His family moved to Gardiner, Maine, in 1870, which renamed “Tilbury Town,” became the backdrop for many of Robinson’s poems. On December 22, 1869, Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine (the same year as W. B. ![]()
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