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)

Selected Resources