When swords were bright and steeds were prancing Īnd dreamed, and rested from his labours Went home and put a bullet through his head. So on we worked, and waited for the light,Īnd went without the meat, and cursed the bread "Good morning," and he glittered when he walked.Īnd he was rich - yes, richer than a king. To be read, especially because he demonstrated that modern themes and concernsĬould be addressed in classical forms it was not necessary to abandonīut still, he fluttered pulses when he said,
While dark, are relieved by a sort of mordant ironic humor. ButĪs the selections below show, he was a careful craftsman and his poems,
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Too hide bound for the new generation of free form stylists. The practitioners of structured poetry, but the forms he wrote in were Thus, his subject matter was too bleak for But, on the other hand, he wrote in rigid traditional forms,Įxpertly one might add. On the one hand, he is one of the first literary figures to move from 19thĬentury sentimentalism to Modern themes of psychological despair and maudlin To have been the victim of having a foot in two different worlds. Poems, typically Miniver Cheevy or RichardĬory, but his reputation slipped badly after his death. His lifetime-he won three Pulitzers-and we all know at least one of his Edward Arlington Robinson was a widely read and respected poet during
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