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On December 22nd, 1869, Edwin Arlington Robinson was born to Edwin Robinson and Mary Elizabeth Palmer in Head Tide, Maine. Growing up he lived in a town on the Kennecbec River called Gardiner, Maine. In a lot of his later poetry he bases a fictional town, Tilbury Town, on Gardiner. His family, which also consisted of two other brothers, lived moderately on his father's income, who worked as an important timber merchant.

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Robinson started seriously writing poetry at age 11, and was a talented writer for someone his age.


Despite his father's wishes, Robinson attended Harvard for two years, but had to leave because his family's money was running short. In 1892 his father died, resulting in Robinson and his family becoming quite poor. Later in 1896 his mother died of a serious illness.

Some of Robinson's poetry grew from these unfortunate incidents.



After leaving Harvard, Robinson moved to New York City, and lived in Greenwich Village, in a house where many other arti Edwin Arlington Robinson | The Poetry Foundation PELE