Children of the Night (poetry collection) explained

Children of the Night was the second volume of poetry published by the American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. While the volume was weakly received, President Theodore Roosevelt's son Kermit introduced the work to his father who, knowing his straits, secured Robinson a job at the NY Customs Office.

Content

Notable poems include "John Evereldown", "Richard Cory", "Reuben Bright", and "Luke Havergal" which was included in Harold Bloom's Best Poems of the English Language.

In July 2008, Project Gutenberg released the 1905 printing of the 1897 edition, containing the following poems:^[1]

• The Children of the Night
• Three Quatrains
• The World
• An Old Story
• Ballade of a Ship
• Ballade by the Fire
• Ballade of Broken Flutes
• Ballade of Dead Friends
• Her Eyes
• Two Men
• Villanelle of Change
• John Evereldown
• Luke Havergal
• The House on the Hill
• Richard Cory
• Two Octaves
• Calvary
• Dear Friends
• The Story of the Ashes and the Flame
• For Some Poems by Matthew Arnold
• Amaryllis
• Kosmos
• Zola
• The Pity of the Leaves
• Aaron Stark
• The Garden
• Cliff Klingenhagen
• Charles Carville's Eyes
• The Dead Village
• Boston
• Two Sonnets
• The Clerks
• Fleming Helphenstine
• For a Book by Thomas Hardy
• Thomas Hood
• The Miracle
• Horace to Leuconoe
• Reuben Bright
• The Altar
• The Tavern
• Sonnet
• George Crabbe
• Credo
• On the Night of a Friend's Wedding
• Sonnet
• Verlaine
• Sonnet
• Supremacy
• The Night Before
• Walt Whitman
• The Chorus of Old Men in "Aegeus"
• The Wilderness
• Octaves
• Two Quatrains
• The two umbrellas

External links

• • Bloom, Harold. The Best Poems of the English Language. 2004.

Notes and References

1. Book: Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson. en-US.