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                          Edwin Arlington Robinson

            A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress

                                  

                         Prepared by Grover Batts
                  Revised and expanded by Patrick Kerwin

                                    2000

                            Manuscript Division
                            Library of Congress

                             Washington, D.C.

                Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
                         Manuscript Division, 2000

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Table of Contents for Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Collection Summary

Creator: Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935
Title: Papers of Edwin Arlington Robinson 1913-1940
Size: 26 items; 7 containers; 2.2 linear feet
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Abstract: Poet. Chiefly holograph mss. of poems by Robinson including
"Amaranth," "Lancelot and Guinevere," "Old King Cole," "Talifer," "The
Master," and "Tristram." Also includes correspondence (1924-1932).

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Subject:

American poetry

Occupations:

Poets, American
Poets

Administrative Information

Provenance:

The papers of Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet, were given to the Library of
Congress by Gertrude Clarke Whittall in 1949. Additional material was
received through transfer and purchase, 1943-1990.

Processing History:

The papers of Edwin Arlington Robinson were arranged and described in 1981.
Additional material was incorporated into the collection in 2000.

Copyright Status:

The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Edwin Arlington
Robinson is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17,
U.S.C.).

Preferred Citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following
information: container number, Edwin Arlington Robinson Papers, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) span the years 1913-1940
and consist of correspondence and holograph poems, including "Amaranth,"
"Lancelot and Guinevere," "The Master," "Old King Cole," "Talifer," and
"Tristram." Many of the poems represented here appeared in Robinson's Man
Against the Sky: A Book of Poems (1916). Also included are nine letters by
Robinson, 1924-1932, and one letter about him. The collection was
originally assembled by Robinson's fellow poet and friend Louis Ledoux.

Additional Robinson correspondence and typescript poems can be found in the
Division's Kermit and Belle Roosevelt Papers. Other significant collections
of Robinson material can be found at the Houghton Library, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massacusetts; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; and the New York Public
Library, New York, New York.

Container List

 Box    Contents
 BOX 1  Correspondence, 1924-1932, 1940
        Poetry
                 "Genevieve and Alexandra," 1916
                 Lancelot and Guinevere, photocopies, 1917
                 (2 folders)
                 "The Master," 1930
                 "Old King Cole," 1913
                 Tristram, fragment, 1931
                 "The Valley of the Shadow," photocopy, n.d.
 BOX 2  Bound holograph poems
                 Amaranth, 1933-1934
 BOX 3           Clavering, Flammonde, and Other Poems, 1914-1915
 BOX 4           Lancelot, 1917
 BOX 5           Poetry
                 Talifer, 1933
 BOX 6           Tristram, 1925-1927
                 (1 vol.)

 BOX 7
                 (1 vol.)