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Robinson (EDWIN ARLINGTON an American)

EDWIN ARLINGTON, an American author and poet, born at Head Tide, Me., in 1869. He studied at Harvard University and became a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters through the general recognition of intellectual sincerity and positive American spirit and theme that appeared alike in his plays and published poems.

His first publication was "The Torrent of the Night Before," brought out in 1896.

Since then he has published "The Children of the Night"; "Captain Craig"; "Van Zorn," a play, and "The Man against the Sky," and "Merlin," both poems.

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