Further Reading
Hagedorn, Herman,Edwin Arlington Robinson, Macmillan,
1939.
Published soon after Robinson’s death, this first
biography of the poet gives readers a sense of the
way he was viewed in his own time.
Kennedy, X. J., ‘‘The Enduring Specter of E. A. Rob-
inson,’’ inNew Criterion, Vol. 25, No. 8, April 2007,
pp.20–26.
Kennedy evaluates the lasting significance of
Robinson’s work in this important essay.
Squires, Radcliffe, ‘‘Tilbury Town Today,’’ inEdwin
Arlington Robinson: Centenary Essays, edited by Ells-
worth Barnard, University of Georgia Press, 1969,
pp. 175–83.
This essay discusses how the United States
changed in the hundred years after Robin-
son’s birth, placing Robinson’s small-town
characters in a larger social context.
Stanford, Donald E., ‘‘Edwin Arlington Robinson,’’ in
Revolution and Convention in Modern Poetry, University
of Delaware Press, 1983, pp. 137–89.
Stanford tries to deduce Robinson’s poetic
theory by closely examining his poetry.
Trachtenberg, Alan, ‘‘Democracy and the Poet: Walt
Whitman and E. A. Robinson,’’ inMassachusetts Review,
Vol. 39, No. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 267–80.
Trachtenberg compares Whitman and Robin-
son regarding their views on democracy and
the ordinary man and their contributions to
the development of a poetry of the people.Miniver Cheevy