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The American poet, Edward Arlington Robinson, won the Pulitzer prize on three separate occasions: 1898, 1924 and 1927. But who today in Europe has heard of him? The critic John Crow Ransom listed him as one of the top three poets of the first half of the last century: the other two being T. S. Eliot and Robert Frost. Only Jorge Luis Borges seems to have notice this disappearance. The South American’s comments in An introduction to American literature, which are short and very much like this paragraph itself, serve like a lost poster, proclaiming a missing person. Lost, poet. Finding him a reward in itself?