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    Merlin A Poem
    Merlin A Poem
    Merlin A Poem
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    Merlin A Poem

    By Edwin Arlington Robinson

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Edwin Arlington Robinson

    The American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in 1869 in the Maine village of Head Tide and spent his school days in nearby Gardiner. Robinson developed a love of poetry in his youth, a love that endured until his death in New York in 1935. Robinson attended Harvard during 1891-1893 and published some of his early poetry in The Harvard Advocate. Although committed to becoming a writer, his path would not be an easy one. Income from Robinson's chosen pursuit was insufficient to maintain his modest lifestyle, much less meet his various responsibilities, and he worked at times as a secretary, a time-keeper, and a customs clerk, all the while continuing to write. After years of relative obscurity, he secured some incremental recognition with the publication of his poetry collections The Children of the Night, The Town Down the River, and The Man Against the Sky. During the First World War and in the decade that followed, Robinson composed a cycle of epic narrative poems, written in blank verse, that were modern in style but drew upon classic themes in substance. Against the unfolding tragedy of a world at war, Robinson composed a trilogy based on the legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. The trilogy included Merlin (1917), Lancelot (1920), and Tristram (1927). During the same period, Edwin Arlington Robinson would win the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry twice; first for his Collected Poems (published in 1921), and again for The Man Who Died Twice (published in 1924). With Tristram, he would at last reap hard-won financial rewards for his literary labors. Edwin Arlington Robinson's Arthurian cycle reflects the poet's most mature work.

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      Merlin A Poem - Edwin Arlington Robinson

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      Title: Merlin

             A Poem

      Author: Edwin Arlington Robinson

      Release Date: September 30, 2012 [EBook #40906]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MERLIN ***

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      MERLIN

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR

      MERLIN

      A Poem

      BY

      EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

      New York

      THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

      1917

      All rights reserved

      Copyright, 1917,

      By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

      Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1917.

      Norwood Press

      J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.

      Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

      To

      GEORGE BURNHAM

      MERLIN

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