Biography of robert p coffin

          Robert Peter Tristram Coffin (March 18, – January 20, ) was an American poet, educator, writer, editor and literary critic.

        1. Robert Peter Tristram Coffin (March 18, – January 20, ) was an American poet, educator, writer, editor and literary critic.
        2. Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was an American poet, educator, writer, editor and literary critic.
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        4. Coffin, a direct descendant of the Nantucket Puritan Tristram Coffin, was born in and grew up on Great Island.
        5. Robert Peter Tristram Coffin () was a writer, educator, and Pulitzer Prize winning poet born in Brunswick, Maine.

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          Robert P. T. Coffin

          American poet

          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]

          Early life

          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]

          Career

          Coffin served with the US Army in World War I. When he returned he taught English at Wells College and then as the Pierce Professor at Bowdoin College.[1]

          Modeled after his friend an