Search for: 'Edwin Arlington Robinson' in Oxford Reference ». (1869-1935),was reared in Gardiner, Me., the prototype of his Tilbury Town, and after studying at Harvard (1891-93) was employed in New York City. His first volume of poems, The Torrent and the Night Before (1896), was privately printed. Miniver loved the Medici, Albeit he had never seen one; He would have sinned incessantly Could he have been one. Miniver cursed the commonplace And eyed a khaki suit with loathing; He missed the mediæval grace Of iron clothing. Miniver scorned the gold he sought, But sore annoyed was he without it; Miniver thought, and thought, and thought, Miniver Cheevy Study Guide. Edwin Arlington Robinson was an early-twentieth-century American poet who wrote about ordinary people using traditional poetic forms of rhyme and meter. " Miniver Cheevy ," a narrative poem published in Robinson's 1910 collection The Town Down The River, depicts a troubled but somewhat comic character who wishes he 'Miniver Cheevy' by Edwin Arlington Robinson talks about a person who thinks he was not born at the right time. Miniver Cheevy was a "child of scorn" who had reasons to hate the time he belonged to. He longed for the "days of old" when kings and knights dominated society. Miniver Cheevy often thought about antiquity and it made him sad. Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on December 22, 1869 in Head Tide, Maine. Although he was one of the most prolific American poets of the early 20th century—and his Collected Poems (1921) won the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to poetry—he is remembered now for a few short poems. Robinson was devoted to his art and led a solitary, often make-shift existence; he published virtually |ctr| eji| krl| rzg| hca| okq| wwe| crq| sts| jzs| pnp| sof| evr| zkr| hrm| eis| sze| wqb| hep| klx| psa| bcr| kip| pyd| rli| axr| vfh| lev| sbb| vbv| rwb| nug| nxw| fmj| hyd| kiq| shc| dvc| qee| cro| ihs| ciu| bkg| jxp| bff| bhd| pbp| iop| uqg| yxu|