American Literature / Unit 12 AML 1130 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Edwin Arlington Robinson and Tilbury Town
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The idea
Robinson, who won the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to poetry, set many poems in an invented New England town and filled it with failures, drunks and men admired from a distance. He wrote in traditional rhyme and meter about people modern fiction was beginning to notice.
In practice
An invented town, full of quiet failures.
Where people slip
Traditional forms carrying modern subjects.
Your place on the trail
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