Stay Lit

"Richard Cory": The Illusion of Having it All


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In this edition of Stay Lit, Miles Ellison and Cambria Shaw explore Edwin Arlington Robinson's classic poem "Richard Cory." First published in 1897, this deceptively simple narrative poem is about a wealthy man, Richard Cory, who is envied as he walks among the townspeople, but are things as they really seem? How happy is Cory? The poem speaks a universal truth. 

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