One moral lesson that can be gleaned from this poem "Richard Cory" is that we often envy people without knowing that they are not really enviable. Whenever Richard Cory went down town,We people on the ...

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) received the first-ever Pulitzer Prize in poetry, for his Collected Poems in 1921. Fame is fleeting, but even in his own lifetime Robinson was something of an ...

A member of the best collaborating team in American letters, JAMES NORMAN HALL is a poet and essayist as well as a storyteller in the Stevensonian tradition. Early this spring he returned to ...

A book written by Mowry Saben, an American essayist and journalist, on the life and works of Edwin Arlington Robinson, an American poet and playwright.

It has been a long while—seventy-two years, to be exact—since Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)was hailed in his obituaries as America’s foremost poet. In recent times, his work has been tacitly ...

ROBINSON says he realized at the age of five that he was a man who was never going to be able to elbow his way to the ‘Trough of Life,’ and these are the letters of such a man. He speaks of ‘the ...

Half a century ago Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel recorded a song based upon the poem “Richard Cory.” If Simon had not written the song, maybe no one under the age of seventy would be aware of the ...