"They are all gone away/there is nothing more to say" he writes in "The House on the Hill". "There was not much that was ahead of him/And there was nothing in the town below/Where strangers would have shut the many doors/That many friends had opened long ago" concludes "Mr. Flood's Party", one of the many sketches set in a fictionalized version of Gardiner, Maine called Tilbury Town. Other sketches by this author include one about a man who "Grew lean while he assailed the seasons/He wept that he was ever born" and anot
"They are all gone away/there is nothing more to say" he writes in "The House on the Hill". "There was not much that was ahead of him/And there was nothing in the town below/Where strangers would have shut the many doors/That many friends had opened long ago" concludes "Mr. Flood's Party", one of the many sketches set in a fictionalized version of Gardiner, Maine called Tilbury Town. Other sketches by this author include one about a man who "Grew lean while he assailed the seasons/He wept that he was ever born" and another about "a gentleman from sole to crown/Clean favored and imperially slim". For 10 points, name this American poet of those works about a suicidal rich man and a "child of scorn", "Miniver Cheevy" and "Richard Cory".
"They are all gone away/there is nothing more to say" he writes in "The House on the Hill".
Edwin Arlington Robinson