BIOGRAPHY; A fine EAR for his subject; The form of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poetry might have been familiar, argues his biographer, but its content - about ordinary people and events - was revolutionary.(ENTERTAINMENT)

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Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), February 4th, 2007

Byline: Rebecca Porte

Special to the Star Tribune

In looking over my life I find that I have no life to speak of, much less to write about," says poet Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) in a letter to critic and poet Amy Lowell. This one line gets to the heart of the paradox of Scott Donaldson's new biography of Robinson: How does a biographer paint a portrait of a man notorious for his reticence both in life and on the page? To find the answer, Donaldson draws on Robinson's own poems and his unpublished letters in this readable and well-researched book, titled simply "Edwin Arlington Ro...

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