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Jay Parini, whose own biography of the poet, Robert Frost: A Life, was written in part as a corrective to Thompson, described the Frost who emerges in the Thompson biography as “a selfish, egomaniacal, dour, cruel, and angry man.”
His first two books appeared in England to critical acclaim: A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914). Upon returning to the United States in 1915, Frost found himself a literary celebrity and settled first in Franconia, New Hampshire and then South Shaftsbury, Vermont.
Feb 5, 2014 · Harvard University Press is publishing the more than 3,000 known letters of Robert Frost, shown here talking with Jacqueline Kennedy at a White House dinner in 1962, a year before his death at...
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, [2] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. [3]
Elinor Frost is revealed by her letters as a keenly possessive, protective, easily fatigued and ailing wife and mother, without much flexibility or imagination. She sounds like one who had...
Apr 14, 2020 · This exhibit looks at conversations among Frost and his correspondents -- his friends the literary scholars Sidney Cox and Cornelius Weygandt, poet and modernist impresario Ezra Pound, and President John F. Kennedy.
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Feb 27, 2014 · The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886–1920 is a staggering effort by the three editors—Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson and Robert Faggen—and Harvard University Press to present, for the first time, the entire collection of all of Frost’s preserved correspondence.
