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Alcoholic Isolation in “Mr. Flood’s Party" 123 alcohol. Winters goes on to write that, although Robinson resumed drinking after prohibition, alcohol would no longer be a problem for the poet (11). It seems to me that, for the alcoholic, liquor is always a problem. Full recovery is usually impossible; alcoholics are always in recovery because their battle with liquor is almost always a life-long affair {Alcoholics Anonymous 43). Works Cited Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story o f How Many Thousands o f Men and Women Have Recovered From Alcoholism. 3rd edition. New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1976. Brasher, Thomas L. “Robinson’s ‘Mr. Flood’s Party.’” Explicator 29. no. 6 (1971): item 45. David, William V. ‘“ Enduring to the End’: Edwin Arlington Robinson’s ‘Mr. Flood’s Party.’” Colby Library Quarterly 12: 50-51. Hagedom, Hermann. Edwin Arlington Robinson. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. Harkley, Joseph. “Mr. Flood’s Two Moons.” Mark Twain Journal 15: 20-21. Levenson, J .C. “Robinson’s Modernity.” Edwin Arlington Robinson: Centenary Essays. Ed. Barnard Ellsworth. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1969. 157-174. Neff, Emery. Edwin Arlington Robinson. New York: William Sloan Association, 1948. Robinson, Edwin Arlington. “Mr. Flood’s Party.” Collected Poems. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. — . Selected Letters o f Edwin Arlington Robinson. Ed. Ridgely Torrence. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Winters, Yvor. Edwin Arlington Robinson. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1971.