Within the first fortnight of being there, The Harvard Advocate published Robinson's "Ballade of a Ship". His real desire was to get published in one of the Harvard literary journals. His mission was not to get all A's, as he wrote his friend Harry Smith, "B, and in that vicinity, is a very comfortable and safe place to hang". He took classes in English, French, and Shakespeare, as well as one on Anglo-Saxon that he later dropped. In late 1891, at the age of 21, Edwin entered Harvard University as a special student. Robinson's poem "Richard Cory" is thought to refer to this brother. His other brother, Herman, a handsome and charismatic man, married the woman Edwin himself loved, but Herman suffered business failures, became an alcoholic, and ended up estranged from his wife and children, dying impoverished in a charity hospital in 1901. His brother Dean died of a drug overdose.
Robinson's early difficulties led many of his poems to have a dark pessimism and his stories to deal with "an American dream gone awry". He described his childhood in Maine as "stark and unhappy": his parents, having wanted a girl, did not name him until he was six months old, when they visited a holiday resort other vacationers decided that he should have a name, and selected a man from Arlington, Massachusetts to draw a name out of a hat. Robinson was born in Head Tide, Lincoln County, Maine, but his family moved to Gardiner, Maine, in 1870. Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
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