Reviews for Selected Poems

The average rating for Selected Poems based on 1 review is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-06-14 00:00:00 Terrie Mclachlan Revisiting the canon of American poetry and for no particular reason--other than that he was a favorite of my undergrad mentor in American lit, Dan Tynan--decided to start with the gloomy, controlled Robinson. His best poems--"Luke Havergal," "Richard Cory," "Miniver Cheevey"--are character sketches of New Englanders who share the poets' bleakly stoic outlook. Robinson's world is one of darkness and loss, always verging on suicidal. He feels the attraction of the lost world of chivalary, but is smart enough to know he's projecting an unreality. Probably the most important philosophical and formal ancestor of Robert Frost.