Call Number:

C0193

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.5 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1899-1968 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935

Form:

Letters -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of original letters and transcriptions of additional letters by Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes.

Edwin Arlington Robinson was the first major American poet of the twentieth century. A master of many technical forms, Robinson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times -- for his Collected Poems (1921), The Man Who Died Twice (1924), and Tristram (1927).

The collection contains forty-one autograph letters by Robinson to Mrs. Edward P. Mason, dated 1900 to 1911. The bulk of the collection, however, comprises typed transcriptions of the author's letters to various other correspondents, including Louis B. Isaacs and Mrs. M. MacDowell. Also included are a thesis on the poet by Robert Scott Fraser and his transcriptions of over two hundred of Robinson's letters, which are accompanied by photocopies of the originals.