MERLIN
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
MERLIN
A Poem
BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1917 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1917, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1917.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To GEORGE BURNHAM
MERLIN
Printed in the United States of America.
The following pages contain advertisements of books by the same author.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
The Man Against the Sky
Cloth, $1.00; Leather, $1.60
It has been some years since Mr. Robinson has given us a new collection of poems. Those who remember “Captain Craig, A Book of Poems,” a volume which brought to its author the heartiest of congratulations, placing him at once in the rank of those American writers whose contributions to literature are of permanent value, will welcome this new work and will find that their anticipation of it and hopes for it have been realized.
“A new book by Edwin Arlington Robinson is something of a literary event.... In these selections we have the richly assorted best of Robinson; which is the same as saying that we have here one of the most direct and distinctive writers of the day.”—Chicago Evening Post.
“He is writing as good poetry as is being written on either side of the Atlantic.”—New York Sun.
“Mr. Robinson, with his fascinating, discursive style, is one of the best singers in this country to-day.”—Springfield Republican.
The Porcupine: A Drama in Three Acts
Cloth, 12mo, $1.25
Edwin Arlington Robinson’s comedy “Van Zorn” proved him to be one of the most accomplished of the younger generation of American dramatists. Of this play the Boston Transcript said “It is an effective presentation of modern life in New York City, in which a poet shows his skill of playwriting ... he brings to the American drama to-day a thing it sadly lacks, and that is character.” In manner and technique Mr. Robinson’s new play “The Porcupine” recalls some of the work of Ibsen. Written adroitly and with the literary cleverness exhibited in “Van Zorn” it tells a story of a domestic entanglement in a dramatic fashion well calculated to hold the reader’s attention.
“He writes admirable dialogue, and his characters have strong and consistent individuality. Moreover, he has freshness of invention, and knows how to unfold an interesting story in dramatic form.”—Nation.
Van Zorn: A Comedy
Cloth, 12mo, $1.25
“The setting is American and the characters are true to the American type.... The second act is drama in its highest expression.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
“He has done something unique. His comedy depicts life among the artists in Manhattan. It is the first time it has been done by one of the initiated.”—Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
“‘Van Zorn,’ by Edwin Arlington Robinson, might be called a comedy of temperament, introspection, and destiny. It tells an interesting story and is stimulative to thought.”—Providence Journal.
“An effective presentation of modern life in New York City, in which a poet shows his skill at prose playwriting ... he brings into the American drama to-day a thing it sadly lacks, and that is character.”—Boston Transcript.
