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          Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine in 1869.

          He was an unhappy kid; he once wrote to his poetry pal Amy Lowell that he remembered wondering, at the age of six, why he had even been born. That's pretty bummed out, for a six year old. This bleak point of view would last throughout Robinson's life, so it's no surprise we see it reflected in "Richard Cory," his most famous poem.

          Not everything in Robinson's life was bleak, however.

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          Though in his young adulthood he had trouble getting other folks to publish his poems, in 1896 he decided to self-publish his collection The Torrent and the Night Before. A year later, he revised the collection—which featured "Richard Cory"—and then a few years after that (in 1902) he published his collection Captain Craig and Other Poems.

          It was this volume that ended up in the hands of none other than President Theodore Roosevelt, and ol' Teddy went wild for Robi