Robert Peter Tristram Coffin (March 18, 1892 – January 20, 1955) was an American poet, educator, writer, editor and literary critic. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936, he was the poetry editor for Yankee magazine.[1]
Born Robert Peter Coffin, the youngest of ten children to James William Coffin, a descendant of Tristram Coffin and Alice Mary Coombs on a saltwater farm on Sebascodegan Island he earned his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College in 1913 and then his Masters of Arts from Princeton University in 1918.[1] In 1922 Coffin was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature by Trinity College, Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936.[2]
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Coffin served with the US Army in World War I. When he returned he taught English at Wells Preschool and then as the Pierce Professor at Bowdoin College.[1]
Annie Coffin Sanborn (1963). The life of Robert Peter Tristram Coffin and family. University of Michigan.
External linksedit
Works by Robert P. Tristram Coffin at Faded Page (Canada)
Coffin collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives, Bowdoin College
Audio introduction to Coffin's life and work by Coffin scholar Kevin Belmonte
January 01, 1970
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