Can’t be with the boys and girls
this time, It’s been a hard season for story and rhyme, No one regrets it so
much as the Cones – We’ve got the right spirit but not the bones.
Aug.
5, 1914
A.P.H. – American Press
Humorists
Edwin Meade (Ted) Robinson
(1878-1946), poet, newspaper columnist, novelist, and lecturer, conducted the
"Philosopher of Folly" column at the Cleveland Leader and Plain
Dealer from 1904 until his death. An American representative of the C.S.
Calverley/Owen Seaman school of poetry, Robinson's output of verse was
astonishing, authoring a poem for print nearly every day for over forty years
(approx. 10,000 poems). A graduate of Wabash College, Robinson wrote for the
Indianapolis Sentinel and Journal before coming to Cleveland, Ohio. Robinson's
column was characterized by sentimental verse, humor, wit, and skepticism and
it included the comments of his readers which he organized into a
"Contributors Club" that totaled over 600 members.
Robinson's
volumes of verse include: The First Born, Mere Melodies (1918), Piping and
Panning (1920), The Curious History of a Nursery Rhyme (1932), and Life, Love
and the Weather (1946). Robinson also produced translations of the poet Horace,
a series of poems under the title Old Testament Jazz, and two autobiographical
novels: Enter Jerry (1921) and its unpublished sequel Wyandot. Robinson was
president of the American Press Humorists in 1914, president of the City Club
of Cleveland in 1932, and a member and frequent lecturer before the Rowfant
Club of Cleveland from 1927-1945. Robinson also taught at Cleveland College
from 1929-1943 on the subject of the origin and pronunciation of the English
language. Robinson was descendent from the Pilgrim pastor, John Robinson.
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