Did you know Simon and Garfunkel's song "Richard Cory" is based on a poem with the same title written by the Maine poet Edwin Arlington Robinson?
The song was featured on the duo's 1966 album Sound of Silence, and the Pulitzer Price-winning poet published the poem in 1897.
To read critics' perspectives on the poem, click here.
- John C.L. Morgan
(Hat tip: Portland Monthly)
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Yep, every good child of the 60's and English majors know this.
Those were halcyon days for singer-songwriters.
Sounds of Silence is a great album containing gems like Homeward Bound, Kathy's Song, I Am a Rock, and April Come She Will.
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