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"Richard Cory" is a narrative poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson. It was first published in 1897, as part of The Children of the Night , having been completed in July of that year; and it remains one of Robinson's most popular and anthologized poems. [ 2 ]
Robinson wrote "Reuben Bright" around the same time as "Richard Cory".David Perkins, in his A History of Modern Poetry (first published 1976), called some of those early poems including "Reuben Bright" and "Richard Cory" "revolutionary", with narrative elements of prose fiction brought into a lyric poetry written about realistic subject matter in vernacular language. [5]
Children of the Night was the second volume of poetry published by the American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.While the volume was weakly received, President Theodore Roosevelt's son Kermit introduced the work to his father who, knowing his straits, secured Robinson a job at the NY Customs Office.
"Richard Cory" is a song written by Paul Simon in early 1965, and recorded by Simon and Garfunkel for their second studio album, Sounds of Silence. The song was based on Edwin Arlington Robinson 's 1897 poem of the same title .
"Miniver Cheevy" is a narrative poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson, published in The Town down the River in 1910. [1] The poem (written in quatrains of iambic tetrameter for three lines, followed by a catalectic line of only three iambs), relates the story of a hopeless romantic who spends his days thinking about what might have been if only he had been born in a nobler and more romantic ...
"Richard Cory" was based on the poem "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" was essentially a rewrite of the previous album's "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.", "We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'" had appeared on the b-side of " The Sound of Silence " a few months before and " Anji " was a cover of an instrumental ...
It all depends on how similar the song is to the poem. If the song lyric is identical to the poem, or there is only negligible differences, then the lyrics does not have copyright. If the lyric differs substantially from the poem, then the copyright belongs to Paul Simon. Wooyi 00:23, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Richard Cory may refer to: "Richard Cory", a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson; Richard Cory (song), a song by Simon and Garfunkel, based on the poem; See also.