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THE new, one volume edition of the poetry of Edward Arlington Robinson contains many of the longer narrative poems which have not previously appeared in a collected edition. One of the greatest of contemporary American poets, Robinson possessed a keen insight and appreciation of the human mind. His understanding of the spirit and fortitude of early American pioneers will serve as documentary evidence to future historians. His powers, of characterization, which appear at their greatest development in the narrative poems, the richness and resonance of all his verse, have caused him to be acclaimed by all literary critics as one of the few great modern poets.