Next Door to a Poet: A Friendly Glimpse of Edwin Arlington Robinson

by Rollo Walter Brown

Numbered among the few men who really knew the great poet Edwin Arlington Robinson is the Rollo Walter Brown, the author of this charming memoir. During the last dozen years of the poet's life they were much together and a close friendship ripened between the two men. Although Mr. Brown has professed to have written nothing more than a memoir of a friendship, he has given us a clearer view of a poet as he lives and works than one usually finds in full-length biographies.
Mr. Brown has written with understanding, with humor, and with an austere sympathy which is peculiarly appropriate in dealing with Edwin Arlington Robinson. His book, one of the first to appear about the famous poet since his death, presents a clear-cut picture of one of the most significant of American poets.

98 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1937