Profiles in Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson
By Robert Funderburk
Edwin Arlington Robinson was not welcome in the world into which he was born, the village of Head Tide in the town of Alna, Maine. December 22, 1869, was a day of disappointment for his parents, because their third son was supposed to be a daughter and a boy's name hadn’t been considered. For six-months the child remained nameless. The summer after his …
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