Collected Poems

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) was an American poet born in Head Tide, Maine, renowned for his short dramatic poems set in the fictional Tilbury Town, exploring themes of personal failure and human complexity, with notable works including "Richard Cory," "Miniver Cheevy," "Luke Havergal," and Arthurian narratives like Tristram. He achieved major literary success by winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry three times (1922 for Collected Poems, 1925 for The Man Who Died Twice, 1928 for Tristram) and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.