Edwin Arlington Robinson 
The Children of the Night (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

Poet Louise Bogan called this 1897 volume ”one of the hinges upon which American poetry was able to turn from the sentimentality of the 90’s toward modern veracity and psychological truth.’  The collection, Robinson’s second, caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, who was instrumental in providing the impoverished poet a much-needed sinecure.  

Circa l’autore

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) was an important American poet.  In addition to verse collections like The Children of the Night (1897) and The Man Against the Sky (1916), he wrote long narrative poems, among the best known of which are Merlin (1917), Lancelot (1920), and The Man Who Died Twice (1924).  He won three Pulitzer Prizes during his career.