And we do not and will not solicit you we neither need nor accept money. If you subscribe will get a notification of all new writings by email. In these days of massive censorship, this is wise, even if you normally consume The Worthy House on some other platform. You can subscribe to writings published in The Worthy House. And, showing that virtue is sometimes rewarded, by the end of his life he was both lionized and economically comfortable. He was consistently a positive and optimistic man, he had fewer vices than most men, and he was singularly devoted to two things: his craft and his many friends. Remarkably, though, he doesn’t seem to have minded all that much. His family life as a child was grim he never married and the love of his life instead married his brother for decades he lived on the edge of starvation he was famously shy and reticent he struggled with alcoholism. Robinson had, in many ways, the stereotypical harsh and difficult life of a great poet. This biography, written ten years ago, is an excellent corrective to today’s ignorance. I doubt very much if children, or adults, are exposed to him today, even though a hundred years ago he was the nation’s most famous poet. Whether they were directed at children or not I cannot say, but I read some of his poetry at around five years old, and it has stuck with me. But I have always liked the poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson, which when I was young was still included in older anthologies of poetry. Thus, I tend not to express any opinion about poetry, and I certainly don’t write any. The pinnacle of my own ability to draw is stick figures, and not good ones.
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