tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post6105510234450874661..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Edwin Arlington Robinson and the doom we cannot fly from - the dark will end the dark, if anythingAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-84500644572956878552016-02-02T19:42:39.890-06:002016-02-02T19:42:39.890-06:00...or Robinson - and his characters - were misanth......or Robinson - and his characters - were misanthropic.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-51708855180833152752016-02-02T08:16:54.748-06:002016-02-02T08:16:54.748-06:00I love those lines. "Captain Craig" is ...I love those lines. "Captain Craig" is a thorny devil, but those lines stood out.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-56640995891074803392016-02-02T07:50:57.827-06:002016-02-02T07:50:57.827-06:00Rereading Captain Craig :
I might go back a littl...Rereading Captain Craig :<br /><br />I might go back a little to the days <br />When I had hounds and credit, and grave friends <br />To borrow my books and set wet glasses on them. <br /><br /><br />you can see why Robinson - and his characters - was misanthropic!Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-71658355857538540682016-01-23T20:34:47.110-06:002016-01-23T20:34:47.110-06:00Roger, I admire and prefer your interpretation of ...Roger, I admire and prefer your interpretation of "The Tavern." I am also impressed that you read the Arthurian poems. How many people can say that.<br /><br />I need to revisit <i>Spoon River</i>, which I have never read as a whole.<br /><br />Yet Robinson was once a popular poet. "Richard Cory" among other Robinson poems was famous and much-memorized, back when poets could be famous and poems were memorized. It was not that long ago.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-28723022398027397892016-01-23T10:57:52.166-06:002016-01-23T10:57:52.166-06:00Ooh, these are really good! Will definitely have t...Ooh, these are really good! Will definitely have to check him out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04739546442661093275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-33600407559426728302016-01-23T02:12:02.102-06:002016-01-23T02:12:02.102-06:00Such strangely dark little verses! And a poet I...Such strangely dark little verses! And a poet I've never heard of so thank you for introducing him!<br /><br />KaggsysbookishramblingsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-20342540455069380272016-01-22T22:02:08.307-06:002016-01-22T22:02:08.307-06:00I've even read Robinson's Arthurian poems,...I've even read Robinson's Arthurian poems, which shows I'm an admirer! <br />I think one problem is that Robinson often couldn't or wouldn't bother to hide the filling where he had to cobble up something: "And all the other things there were to eat" is so obviously there to fill out the sonnet it's almost admirable in its disdain for form. He's got something in common with Edgar Lee Masters in his portrayal of a society, if not in his technique. Tilbury Town and Spoon River are very like each other, but Robinson doesn't make the connexions between his characters the way Masters does and it's character and fate that does for Robinson's people, not society. <br />At his best he fits into the turn-of-the-century School of Night that Hardy and Frost led with his own gentle despair. He is trapped deeper in the nineteenth century and its poetry conventions than they are - he might despise poetic form, but he can't escape it - but he does have his own distinctive qualities. <br />I don't think John Evereldown killed Ham Amory: "The Tavern has a story, but no man<br />Can tell us what it is". In Spoon River John Evereldown might well have mudered him or been unjustly convicted of the murder and it's possible Evereldown suppressed his memory of his crime, but the best candidate for the "stranger [who] galloped up from Tilbury Town" and terrified Evereldown and presumably murdered Amory is Robinson himself.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com