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- Gainesville Sun, March 7, 1992
John Albert Robbins Jr.
An Indiana University professor emeritus who began corresponding with poet Robert Frost while a student at the University of Florida died Wednesday in Bloomington, Ind.
John Albert Robbins, Jr., 77, received his bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees at UF. Robbins? correspondence with Frost culminated in a book, ?An Interlude with Robert Frost,? published in 1982.
Robbins was an American literature scholar whose interests included bibliography and American poetry. He had a special interest in the works of Frost, Edgar Allen Poe and Ezra Pound.
Robbins also attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an assistant instructor. A former instructor at Duke University, he joined Indiana University?s faculty in 1950 and became chairman of the freshman literature program in the English department. He retired in 1985.
He was editor of American Literary Scholarship, a publication of the Modern Language Association, from 1968 to 1973, and co-editor from 1976 to 1988.
He was a member of a Methodist church in St. Petersburg.
Survivors include his wife, Simone Bassett Robbins of Bloomington, Ind., and a daughter, Marise H. Robbins of Gainesville.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of donations to the J. Albert Robbins Fund, in care of the Indiana University English department, Bloomington, Ind.
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