The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Robinson, Edwin Arlington

ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington, American poet: b. Head Tide, Me., 22 Dec. 1869. He was educated at Gardiner, Me., and at Harvard University in 1891-93. His poetic work has been very well received by discriminating critics who have pronounced it thoroughly American in tone and free of the meaningless twaddle all too common among our poets. His works are ‘The Torrent and the Night Before’ (1896); ‘The Children of the Night’ (1897); ‘Captain Craig’ (1902); ‘The Town Down the River’ (1910); ‘Van Zorn,’ a play (1914); ‘The Porcupine,’ a play (1915); ‘The Man Against the Sky,’ poems (1916); ‘Merlin,’ a poem (1917). See Merlin; Van Zorn.