10. The influence of Robinson’s work on younger American poets, especially on Lindsay and Sandburg, makes an interesting study.
Bibliography
- The Torrent and the Night Before. 1896. (Privately printed.)
- The Children of the Night. 1897.
- Captain Craig. 1902.
- The Town down the River. 1910.
- Van Zorn. 1914. (Play.)
- The Porcupine. 1915. (Play.)
- The Man against the Sky. 1916.
- Merlin. 1917.
- Lancelot. 1919.
- The Three Taverns. 1920.
- *Collected Poems. 1921.
- Avon’s Harvest. 1921.
Studies and Reviews
- Boynton.
- Lowell.
- Untermeyer.
- Atlan. 98 (’06): 330.
- Bk. Buyer, 25 (’02): 429.
- Bookm. 45 (’17): 429 (portrait); 47 (’18): 551; 50 (’20): 507; 51 (’20): 457.
- Chapbook, 1-2, May, 1920: 1. (Fletcher.)
- Dial, 34 (’03): 18; 72 (’22): 130. (Amy Lowell.)
- Fortn. 86 (’06): 429.
- Forum, 45 (’11): 80; 51 (’14): 305.
- Ind. 55 (’03): 446.
- Lit. Digest, 64 (’20): Jan. 10: p. 32 (portrait), 40.
- Nation, 75 (’02): 465; 111 (’20): 453.
- New Eng. M. 33 (’05): 425.
- New Repub. 2 (’15): 267; 7 (’16): 96 (Amy Lowell); 23 (’20): 259.
- No. Am. 211 (’20): 121.
- Outlook, 105 (’13): 736, 744 (portrait); 112 (’16): 786; 123 (’19): 535.
- Poetry, 8 (’16): 46; 10 (’17): 211; 15 (’20): 265; 16 (’20): 217; 20 (’22): 278.
- Scrib. M. 66 (’19): 763.
Edwin Meade Robinson—poet, novelist.
Born at Lima, Indiana, 1879. Not related to Edwin Arlington Robinson. Newspaper man, first on the Indianapolis Sentinel, later on the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in which he conducts a column. Besides his successful volume of verse, Piping and Panning, 1920, Mr. Robinson has published a novel which has attracted attention as an honest record of a growing boy, Enter Jerry, 1920. For reviews, see Book Review Digest, 1920, 1921.
Born at Galesburg, Illinois, of Swedish stock. Has little schooling but wide experience of life. At thirteen drove a milk wagon, and for the next six years did all kinds of rough work—as porter in a barber shop, scene-shifter, truck-handler in a brickyard, turner apprentice in a pottery, dishwasher in hotels, harvest hand in Kansas.