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Robinson, Edwin Arlington Miniver Cheevy

	On-Line Text
Genre	Poem
Keywords	Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Mental Illness
Summary	Miniver Cheevy was a "child of scorn" who regretted his life in the real world. He loved to dream of the past, especially the glorious and romantic past. He loved abstractions, like Art and Romance, but "cursed the commonplace" of everyday life. He "scorned the gold he sought, / But sore annoyed was he without it . . . . " He couldn't DO anything in the world, so he "called it fate, / And kept on drinking."
Commentary	Like "Richard Cory," this is another of Robinson's poems that sketch a quick, memorable portrait of a person bent on self-destruction.
Source	Selected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson
Publisher	Macmillan
Edition	1965
Editors	Morton Dauwen Zabel
Place Published	London
Miscellaneous	First published: 1910
Annotated by	Coulehan, Jack
Date of Entry	06/24/94
Last Revised	01/09/07