E. A. Robinson's Later Poems

T HE public response to the narrative poems of Robinson which appeared after Tristram was chilly. The poems were praised, but usually with a hovering air of disappointment or uneasiness. The enormous popular success of Tristram, largely the result of the friendly advertising efforts of Robinson's literary admirers, has blinded critics, if not to the true value of the later poems, at least to their significance in Robinson's career. It is still too early to predict the measure of permanence which these poems will enjoy in relation to the earlier ones. Robinson himself rarely felt disposed to justify a particular work, or even to judge it, in terms of such finality

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