Edwin Arlington Robinson

ABOUT EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose best-known works include The Children of the Night and Dionysus in Doubt.

He studied at Harvard University. His early poem, "Ballade of a Ship," was published by The Harvard Advocate.

His famous poem, 'Richard Cory,' was adapted into a song by folk musicians Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel .

He was born in Maine, and he died in New York City. He neither married nor had children.

President Theodore Roosevelt admired his poetry and secured him a job at the New York Customs Office.