![]() ![]() His father, Edward, had died he was buried at the top of the street in Oak Grove Cemetery in a plot purchased for the family. Robinson's literary career had false-started.Īfter Edwin's freshman year at Harvard the family endured what they knew was coming. He was even invited to meet with the editors, but when he returned he complained to his friend Mowry Saben, "I sat there among them, unable to say a word". Within his 1st fortnight at the University, the Harvard Advocate published Robinson's "Ballade of a Ship". His real desire was to get published in Harvard literary journals. His mission was not to get all A's, as he wrote his friend Harry Smith, "B, and in that vicinity, is a very comfortable and safe place to hang". He took classes on English, French, and Shakespeare, plus as a class on Anglo-Saxon that he later dropped. ![]() In late 1891, at the age of 21, Edwin entered Harvard University as a special student. His early difficulties led many of his poems to have a dark pessimism and his stories to deal with "an American dream gone awry". Robinson's poem " Richard Cory" may relate to his other brother, Herman Robinson. He described his childhood in Maine as "stark and unhappy": his parents, having wanted a girl, did not name him until he was 6 months old, when they visited a holiday resort other vacationers decided that he should have a name, and selected a man from Arlington, Massachusetts, to draw a name out of a hat. Robinson was born in Head Tide, Lincoln County, Maine, but his family moved to Gardiner, Maine, in 1870. ![]()
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