Overview
Photographs of American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, his family, friends, and dwellings.
Dates
- Creation: 1870-1931
Extent
.2 linear feet (1 box)Includes portrait photographs of EAR from all time periods, group portraits with friends, images of EAR's birthplace in Head Tide, Alna, Maine, and his family home in Gardiner, Maine. Also includes photographs of his two brothers, Herman Robinson and Dean Robinson. Most items have autograph manuscript annotations on verso in the hand of family friend, and Gardiner, Maine neighbor, Rosalind Richards.
Biographical / Historical
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) was born in the village of Head Tide, in the town of Alna, Maine, and raised in Gardiner, Maine. He attended Harvard College from 1891 to 1893, but did not complete a degree. He is considered the first major American poet of the twentieth century. He is especially known for his Tilbury Town cycle of poems, and for his Arthurian trilogy, Merlin, Lancelot, and Tristram.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject of photograph.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
No accession number. Reclassified from: PR 5750.83 [Fomerly shelved as Lobby IX.4.18] Donor information unknown; probably gift of Rosalind Richards (photographs have her annotations on verso).
General note
Collection materials are in English.
Processing Information
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt
- Title
- Photographs of Edwin Arlington Robinson, circa 1870-1931: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01865
Repository Details
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