Call Number:

003.177

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.01 linear ft. (1 folder)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Robert P. Tristram Coffin, "Poems That Write the Poet" (HCS.003.177) Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1953 March 24

Creator:

Coffin, Robert P. Tristram (Robert Peter Tristram), 1892-1955

Abstract:

This is an anotated copy of the Class of 1898 Lecture by Robert P. Tristram Coffin tited "Poems that write the poet."

Robert Tristram Coffin (1892-1955) earned his undergraduate degree at Bowdoin College in 1917. He was a Rhodes scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936.

Robert Tristram Coffin discusses his approach to writing poetry and shares twelve of his poems. Those included are: Barn Swallows, There Yet Survived A God, The Cupola, One Who Knows His Seagulls, Foxes and Graves, None of Mine, The Secret Heart, Footsteps of Flame, Wind from Home, Roxiney Boody, Golden Falcon, and Crystal Moment. Each poem is annoated in pencil with page numbers. An annotation on title page reads: "actually a condensed and restated version of his The Substance that is Poetry (Macmillan, 1942); mainly a development of the four types of poems 72,74,75,77."