Anthology of the twentieth-century American poet's work, including the narrative poems "The Glory of the Nightingales", "Nicodemus", "Talifer", "Amaranth", and "King Jasper"

The best of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poetry rings with a lyrical and emotional purity and singularity that should assure his place as one of the treasured poets of his generation ... Scott Donaldson's book should help to revive appreciation for this solitary figure and the unique resonance of his work. --W.S. Merwin.

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the first of the great American modernist poets."No poet ever understood loneliness and separateness better than Robinson," James Dickey has observed. Robinson's lyric poems illuminate the hearts and minds of the most unlikely subjects—the downtrodden, the bereft, and the misunderstood. Even while writing in meter and rhyme, he used everyday language with unprecedented power, wit, and sensitivity. With his keen understanding of ordinary people and a gift for harnessing the rhythms of conversational speech, Robinson created the vivid character portraits for which he is best known, among them "Aunt Imogen," "Isaac and Archibald," "Miniver Cheevy," and "Richard Cory." Most of his poems are set in the fictive Tilbury Town—based on his boyhood home of Gardiner, Maine—but his work reaches far beyond its particular locality in its focus on struggle and redemption in human experience.

This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.

Mezey's selection focuses on Robinson's marvelous short lyrics -- he was a master of the narrative lyric -- and includes a generous sampling of medium-length pieces. Included as an Appendix is the review that President Theodore Roosevelt, one of Robinson's most devout supporters, wrote of the poet's first book; and Robert Mezey has prepared a captivating, informative Introduction exclusive to our volume.

"This encyclopedia provides information on Robinson's poems and his less well known prose works, along with entries on his family, friends, and associates. Entries on his writings, the year written, the setting of the work, background information, and critical commentary illuminating enigmatic passages. For people, the entries provide biographical information and describe the influence on Robinson's life."--Provided by publisher.

The expanded edition of an essential collection of writings, essays, and interviews from Paul Auster, one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters. The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and 4 3 2 1 presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers, including his "breathtaking memoir" (Financial Times), The Invention of Solitude. Ranging in subject from Sir Walter Raleigh to Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit, conceptual artist Sophie Calle to Auster's own typewriter, the World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, Collected Prose records the passions and insights of a writer who "will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle).