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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aRobinson, Edwin Arlington,
_d1869-1935
245 1 0 _aCaptain Craig
250 _aSecond edition.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-24
505 0 _aCaptain Craig -- Isaac and Archibald -- The return of Morgan and Fingal -- Aunt Imogen -- The Klondike -- The growth of "Lorraine" -- The sage -- Erasmus -- The woman and the wife -- The book of Annandale -- Sainte-Nitouche -- As a world would have it -- The corridor -- Cortège -- The wife of Palissy -- Twilight song.
508 _aTerry Jeffress and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"Captain Craig" by Edwin Arlington Robinson is a collection of poems written in the early 20th century. It is anchored by a long narrative in verse set in Tilbury Town, following an eccentric, destitute philosopher named Captain Craig as observed by a young narrator and his friends. Through talk, letters, and character sketches, it meditates on truth, art, faith, failure, and the stubborn spark of joy amid want. Readers drawn to character-driven, philosophical poetry with a dry New England wit may find it compelling. The opening of the work introduces Tilbury Town and the shabby, hungry Captain, whom only a few men befriend; the narrator visits his attic and hears bold, ruminative talk on gratitude, sunlight, laughter with God, and sincerity. After the narrator departs, letters arrive in which the Captain celebrates spring, quotes Sophocles, names his three hens after the Fates, recounts odd dreams (including a carpenter’s counsel to “find Nazareth”), tells an anecdote of Count Pretzel, and playfully critiques a friend’s ballad. Returning, the narrator finds the Captain failing; the old man reads a grandly humorous “testament” that bequeaths “God’s universe” and urges courage, climbing, and truth, then drifts through fevered dreams and dies with a final whimsical word about “trombones.” The friends gather at their tavern before escorting his funeral with the Tilbury band. The section closes by turning to a new poem, where the speaker fondly recalls Isaac and Archibald and a country walk to check on oats. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1902
653 _aAmerican poetry
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/captaincraigone00robirich
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77544
999 _c118264
_d118264