[Gutenberg 313] • Children of the Night

Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869––April 6, 1935) was an American poet and sonnet writer who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.Robinson was born in Head Tide, Lincoln County, Maine; but his family moved to Gardiner, Maine, in 1871. He described his childhood in Maine as "stark and unhappy": his parents (who had wanted a girl) did not name him until he was six months old, when they visited a holiday resort — whereupon, other vacationers decided that he should have a name and selected a man from Arlington, Massachusetts, to draw a name out of a hat. Throughout his life, he not only hated his given name, but also his family’s habit of calling him “Win”. As an adult, he always used the signature “E. A.