Tilbury Town
fictional town
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dramatic poems of Robinson
- In Edwin Arlington Robinson
…a small New England village, Tilbury Town, very much like the Gardiner, Maine, in which he grew up.
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“Mr. Flood’s Party”
- In Mr. Flood’s Party
…is set in the fictional Tilbury Town. The narrative concerns lonely, isolated Eben Flood, resident of Tilbury Town, who climbs a hill above the town one moonlit night and walks down an empty road drunk and alone. Frequently drinking from a jug of liquor, “secure, with only two moons listening,”…
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