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Coffin, Robert (1892 - 1955)
Genre: General Fiction, Non-Fiction - Scholarly, Poetry
Born in Brunswick, a 1915 graduate of Bowdoin, and later a professor there (1934-1955), essayist, poet, and novelist Robert Peter Tristam Coffin won the 1936 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Strange Holiness.
Selected Bibliography
Poetry
- Christchurch (1924)
- Dew & Bronze (1927)
- Golden Falcon (1929)
- The Yoke of Thunder (1932)
- Ballads of Square-Toed Americans (1933)
- Strange Holiness (1935) Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Fifteen Girls on a Hobby Horse (1937)
- Maine Ballads (1938)
- There Will Be Bread and Love (1942)
- Poem for a Son with Wings (1945)
- People Behave Like Ballads (1946)
- Collected Poems (1948)
- The Third Hunger and the Poem Aloud (1949)
- Selected Poems (1955)
Essays
- Book of Crowns and Cottages (1925)
- An Attic Room (1929)
- New Poetry of New England: Frost & Robinson (1938) lectures
- The Substance That Is Poetry (1942)
- Book of Uncles (1944)
- Maine Doings: Informal Essays (1950)
- On the Green Carpet (1951)
- Mainstays of Maine (1944)
Novels
- Red Sky in the Morning (1935)
- John Dawn (1936)
- Thomas, Thomas -- Ancil Thomas (1941)
Biographies and other Non-Fiction
- The Dukes of Buckingham (1931)
- Lost Paradise: A Boyhood on a Maine Coast Farm (1934)
- Portrait of an American (1935)
- Kennebec: Cradle of Americans (1937)
- Captain Abby and Captain John (1939)
- Christmas in Maine (1948)
- Do You Know Maine? (1948)
- Life in America: New England (1951)