Children of the Night

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Robinson's 1897 debut collection introduced his characteristic gallery of failed and isolated souls in the fictional New England town of Tilbury — Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy, and others who became canonical figures in American poetry. Robinson won three Pulitzer Prizes and was among the most admired poets of the early twentieth century; he was discovered by President Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote an unsigned review of this book. His tightly rhymed portraits of human defeat combine classical formalism with psychological insight that anticipates Chekhov.