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While he was an admirer of Wordsworth, Robinson was by no means a nature poet. The townspeople of Gardiner on whom his poems are based appear to have suffered from many of the same problems as Robinson himself: suicide, alcoholism, tragic loneliness, and a general sense of failure and unfulfilled promise. Robinson's own road to poetic success was a long and hard one, and it was not until his poems were discovered by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 that he began to be recognized as an important poet.
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Further, his family was highly dysfunctional: his father died bankrupt, leaving him in desperate financial straits and obliging him to take a series of demeaning jobs one of his brothers was addicted to morphine and another to alcohol. He suffered from chronic mastoiditis, a painful malady that ultimately left him deaf in one ear.
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A keenly sensitive individual (born "with my skin inside out," as he liked to say), Robinson experienced neither love nor marriage. Robinson had a difficult, lonely, and depressing life, which surely contributed to the underlying pessimism of his poetry. Instead, he returned to Gardiner after the death of his father and began to write the poems that would eventually be published in The Torrent and the Night Before (1896) and The Children of the Night (1897). Though he spent two years at Harvard University in the early 1890s, Robinson never became part ofthe Harvard School ofpoets.
Robinson grew up in Gardiner, Maine, which became the model for "Tilbury Town," the fictional setting of many of his poems.
Though he is often ignored in discussions ofmodern American poetry, Robinson was certainly America's most important poet during the period from the 1890s until the mid-1910s. Robinson's poetry was, as the poet Louise Bogan later observed in an essay entitled "Tilbury Town and Beyond" (1931), "one of the hinges upon which American poetry was able to turn from the sentimentality of the nineties toward modern veracity and psychological truth." Robinson's poetic output was considerable, and not all of it was of the highest quality, but his best poems are masterpieces of concision and rhetoric. Robinson was born in 1869, making him the oldest of the American poets who successfully made the transition into the twentieth century.
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