He swam in Kennebec River with the Swanton brothers, picked apples with the Barstow brothers, and sneaked cigarettes in Deane’s Grove. His neighbors, the Jordans, said that his greatest delight seemed to be “hunting difficult words.” He would appear in their doorway, and cry “Nebuchadnezzar” or “Melchizedek.” However, his early life in Gardiner was not as isolated as some accounts would suppose. He early became “an incorrigible fisher of words” as he reflected upon the matter late in his life. Robinson, a shy and quiet child, was utterly fascinated by the sound of words. About this time, he realized that he was "an incorrigible fisher of words." His honor part was “Muliera, a Metrical Discourse,” the text of which has never been found.Įdwin Arlington Robinson in the earliest known photograph of him in 1881 when he was twelve. The graduation ceremony was held in the Gardiner Coliseum, a convention hall, in June 1888. There he may have had a childhood crush on his teacher Lizzie Austin. Later he attended public schools and graduated from Gardiner High School, then located on the corner of School Street and Dresden Avenue across from the Gardiner Common. The Robinson family worshipped at the Congregational Church at the top of Brunswick Hill. Morrell’s School on Dresden Avenue, a short walk from the Robinson house through connecting Danforth Street.
Bates house on Lincoln Street, now Avenue, in September 1870. The father was a successful lumber merchant and local politician in Alna, and as he acquired wealth, he was offered the directorship of a bank in Gardiner, to which place the family moved when Robinson was eighteen months old. A.”Įdward Robinson (1818-1892), father of Edwin Arlington Robinson. He hated the family’s habit of calling him “Win,” and as an adult he always signed himself as “E. The ladies placed names in a lottery, and the name drawn was “Edwin.” Because the lady who proposed “Edwin” as a name was from Arlington, Massachusetts, baby Robinson became Edwin Arlington Robinson, a name that was anathema to him throughout his life. The following summer when the family vacationed at a resort in Harpswell, Maine, the ladies on the verandah challenged her to name the baby. Because his mother had expected a daughter, no male name had been selected for a possible son. Mary Elizabeth (Palmer) Robinson (1833-1896), mother of Edwin Arlington Robinson.Įdwin Arlington Robinson was born in the village of Head Tide in the town of Alna, Maine, on December 22, 1869, third son of Edward and Mary Elizabeth (Palmer) Robinson.
Edwin Arlington Robinson | A Brief BiographyĬhairman, Special Collections Committee, Gardiner Library Association
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