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Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Strange Holiness, New York: Macmillan, 1935.

Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Strange Holiness, New York: Macmillan, 1935.
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As a poet, novelist, essayist, and illustrator, Coffin (Class of 1915) published nearly forty books during a career that also engaged him in teaching-first at Wells College and, for twenty-one years, at his alma mater. He was also founder of the Towle Writer's Conference at the University of New Hampshire, and he enjoyed a national reputation for lecturing that matched his literary accomplishments. The importance of place, especially the rural and coastal aspects of his native Maine, permeates his writing. This collection of poems about country folk and country things won Coffin the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1936.

Gift: Estate of Kenneth C. M. Sills.

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