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e most moving emotional narratives found in modern poetry." --'Review of Reviews'. "... His handling of Greek themes reveals him as a lyrical poet of inimitable charm and skill."--'Reedy's Mirror'. "A poem that must endure; if things that deserve long life get it."-- 'N. Y. Evening Sun'. "Wherever you hear people who know speak of American poets... they assume that you take the genius and place of Edwin Arlington Robinson as granted.... A man with something to say that has value and beauty. His thought is deep and his ideas are high and stimulating."--'Boston Transcript'. By the same author-------------- The Porcupine: A Drama in Three Acts Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 Edwin Arlington Robinson's comedy "Van Zorn" proved him to be one of the most accomplished of the younger generation of American dramatists. Of this play the 'Boston Transcript' said, "It is an effective presentation of modern life in New York City, in which a poet shows his skill of playwrighting... he brings to the American drama to-day a thing it sadly lacks, and that is character." In manner and technique Mr. Robinson's new play, "The Porcupine", recalls some of the work of Ibsen. Written adroitly and with the literary cleverness exhibited in "Van Zorn", it tells a story of a domestic entanglement in a dramatic fashion well calculated to hold the reader's attention. "Contains all of the qualities that are said to be conspicuously lacking in American Drama."--'N. Y. Evening Sun'. Van Zorn: A Comedy in Three Acts Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 Mr. Robinson is known as the leader of present-day American poets. In this delightful play he tells with a biting humor the story of the salvation of a soul. By clever arrangement of incident and skillful characterization he arouses strongly the reader's curiosity, and the suspense is admirably sustained. The dialogue is bright, and the construction of the plot shows the work of one well versed in the technique of the drama. Notes on the etext: John Gorham: Catches him and let's him go and eats him up for fun."-- changed to: Catches him and lets him go and eats him up for fun."-- Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford: Whatever there be, they'll be no more of that; not changed, but noted as possibly incorrect--should it be?: Whatever there be, there'll be no more of that; Then are as yet a picture in our vi
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