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Works by R. P. T. Coffin
Christchurch
(1924)
Book
Of Crowns And Cottages (1925)
Dew
And Bronze (1927)
A
Book Of Seventeenth-Century Prose (1929)
An
Attic Room (1929)
Golden
Falcon (1929)
Laud,
Storm Center Of Stuart England (1930)
The
Dukes Of Buckingham : Playboys Of The Stuart World (1931)
Portrait
Of An American (1931)
The
Yoke Of Thunder (1932)
Ballads
of Square-Toed Americans (1933)
Lost
Paradise : A Boyhood On A Maine Coast Farm (1934)
Red
Sky In The Morning (1935)
Strange
Holiness (1935)
John
Dawn (1936)
Kennebec,
Cradle Of Americans (1937)
Saltwater
Farm (1937)
Maine
Ballads (1938)
New
Poetry Of New England: Frost And Robinson (1938)
Captain
Abby And Captain John : An Around-The-World Biography (1939)
Christmas
In Maine (1941)
Thomas-Thomas-Ancil-Thomas
(1941)
Book
of Uncles (1942)
The
Substance That Is Poetry (1942)
There
Will Be Bread And Love (1942)
Primer
For America (1943)
Mainstays
Of Maine (1945)
Poems
For A Son With Wings (1945)
People
Behave Like Ballads (1946)
Yankee
Coast (1947)
Coast
Calendar (1949)
One-Horse
Farm : Down-East Georgics (1949)
The
Third Hunger & The Poem Aloud (1949)
Apples
by Ocean (1950)
Life
In America : New England (1951)
Maine
Doings (1951)
On
The Green Carpet (1951)
Sir
Isaac Coffin, Bart., 1759-1839: Admiral And Prophet (1951)
Poems
That Write The Poet (1953)
Hellas
Revisited (1954)
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COFFIN, ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM
(1892-1955) was born in Brunswick on March 18, 1892 and grew up in Harpswell
on Great Island on his father's salt water farm.
Coffin graduated from Bowdoin College in 1915 at the top
of his class, having won several prizes for his excellent writing. Awarded
the Henry W. Longfellow fellowship, he spent a year at Princeton then went to
Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar. His studies were interrupted by a
year in the armed services during World War I.
In 1924 he published his volume of
poems, Christchurch, the first of forty books. By 1936
he had won the Pulitzer Prize for Strange Holiness.
Coffin returned to Bowdoin
to teach (1934-1955), and was honored there on July 9, 1948 when he read from
his poems and displayed his drawings.
A wildflower sanctuary was
established in his name in Woolwich.
A 180-acre preserve, it is owned by the New England Wildflower Society,
containing more than 200 species of flowers, grasses, trees and shrubs.
Additional resources
The Bowdoin College Library's Special Collections Library holds many of his manuscripts, drafts, proofs, notes, personal records, lectures, plays, poems, books, recordings, and photographs.
Sanborn, Annie Coffin. The Life of
Robert Peter Tristram Coffin and family. Alton, New Hampshire. 1963.
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