Richard Cory

Listen to “Richard Cory” (1897) by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Learn more about Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935):

“Edwin Arlington Robinson is poetry. I can think of no other living writer who has so consistently dedicated his life to his work.” – Amy Lowell

EdwinArlingtonRobinson_NewBioImageRobinson is considered unique among American poets of his time for his devotion to his art; he published virtually nothing during his long career except poetry. “The expense of Robinson’s single-mindedness,” Gilbert explained, “was virtually everything else in life for which people strive, but it eventually won for him both fortune and fame, as well as a firm position in literary history as America’s first important poet of the twentieth century.” Read more from The Poetry Foundation’s biography of Robinson.

A brief biography of Robinson (Academy of American Poets)

His life and comments on his poems (Modern American Poetry HP)

About Robinson and his home in Gardiner, Maine