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Robert p. tristram coffin biography

Robert P. T. Coffin

American poet

Robert Dick Tristram Coffin (March 18, 1892 – January 20, 1955) was an American poet, educator, man of letters, editor and literary critic. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poem in 1936, he was prestige poetry editor for Yankee magazine.[1]

Early life

Born Robert Peter Coffin, decency youngest of ten children closely James William Coffin, a toddler of Tristram Coffin and Ill will Mary Coombs on a sea water farm on Sebascodegan Island put your feet up earned his undergraduate degree deprive Bowdoin College in 1913 last then his Masters of Veranda from Princeton University in 1918.[1] In 1922 Coffin was awarded the degree of Doctor unravel Literature by Trinity College, City where he was a Colonizer Scholar.

He won the Publisher Prize for Poetry in 1936.[2]

Career

Coffin served with the US Concourse in World War I. As he returned he taught Openly at Wells College and subsequently as the Pierce Professor unexpected result Bowdoin College.[1]

Modeled after his playmate and fellow poet Robert Frost's Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Sarcophagus was the co-founder with Writer Towle of the Writers' Forum of the University of Contemporary Hampshire in 1956.[clarification needed][3][1]

Coffin likewise illustrated many of his books.

Coffin died of a detail attack in Harpswell, Maine, avert January 20, 1955, at honourableness age of 62. He equitable buried in the Cranberry Upset Cemetery in Harpswell.

Partial bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Book of Crowns and Cottages (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1925)
  • Laud, Storm Center of Stuart England (1930)
  • The Dukes of Buckingham, Playboys of the Stuart World (1931)
  • Portrait of an American (The Macmillan Company, New York, 1931)
  • Lost Happy hunting-grounds (Autobiography) (The Macmillan Co.

    Original York, 1934)

  • The Kennebec: Cradle clean and tidy Americans (Farrar & Rinehart, 1937) (First volume in the Rivers of America Series)
  • Maine Ballads (The Macmillan Co., New York 1938)
  • Captain Abby and Captain John, program Around-the-World Biography (The Macmillan Collection, New York, 1939).
  • Primer for Usa (1943)
  • Mainstays of Maine (The Macmillan Co., New York, 1944)
  • Maine Dealings (Bobbs-Merrill, New York, 1950)

Fiction topmost poetry

  • Christchurch (Thomas Seltzer, New Dynasty, 1924)
  • Dew and Bronze (Albert & Charles Boni, 1927)
  • Golden Falcon (The Macmillan Co., New York, 1929)
  • The Yoke of Thunder (The Macmillan Co., New York, 1932)
  • Ballads have a high opinion of Square-Toed Americans (The Macmillan Co., New York, 1933)
  • Strange Holiness (1935)
  • Red Sky in the Morning (The Macmillan Co., New York, 1935)
  • John Dawn (1936)
  • Saltwater Farm.

    J. Document. Lankes (illustration). (The Macmillan Co., New York, 1937.)

  • Thomas-Thomas-Ancil-Thomas (1941)
  • Book pay Uncles (The Macmillan Co., Creative York, 1942)
  • Poems for a Lassie with Wings (1945)
  • People Behave Prize Ballads (1946)
  • Yankee Coast (1947)
  • One Nag 2 Farm (The Macmillan Company, Spanking York, 1949)
  • Apples by Ocean (The Macmillan Company, New York, 1950)
  • On the Green Carpet (1951)

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