Biography of Robert Frost
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Robert Lee
Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions
of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work
frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early
twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical
themes and Robert Frost was
born in San Francisco, California.
After his father's death in May 5, 1885, he and his family moved to Lawrence,
Massachusetts under the patronage of (Robert's grandfather) William Frost.
Frost's mother joined the Swedenborgian church but she leaved him. Frost grew
up in the city, and published his first poem in his high school's magazine.
Frost returned home to teach and to work at various jobs including delivering
newspapers and factory labor but he felt enjoy his work as a poet.
In
1894 he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy" for fifteen
dollars. He got married with Elinor Miriam White at Harvard University and then
they had six children: son Elliot
(1896–1904, died of cholera); daughter Lesley
Frost Ballantine (1899–1983); son Carol (1902–1940, committed suicide); daughter Irma (1903–1967); daughter Marjorie (1905–1934, died as a
result of puerperal fever after childbirth); and daughter Elinor Bettina (died
just three days after her birth in 1907).
Robert worked the farm for nine years and
producing many of the poems that would later become famous. In 1912 Frost
sailed with his family to Great Britain before settling in Beaconsfield outside
London. His first book of poetry, A Boy's Will, was published the next year and
in English, Frost wrote some of his best poem. He came back to America in 1915,
he bought a farm in Franconia and there he launched his career of writing,
teaching, and lecturing. During the years 1916–20, 1923–24, and 1927–1938,
Frost taught English at Amherst College. In 1921 Frost accepted a fellowship
teaching post at the University of Michigan, while there he was awarded a
lifetime appointment at the University as a Fellow in Letters.
In 1921 Frost accepted a fellowship teaching
post at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he resided until 1927 when
he returned to teach at Amherst. While teaching at the University of Michigan,
he was awarded a lifetime appointment at the University as a Fellow in Letters.
The Robert Frost Ann Arbor home was purchased by The Henry Ford Museum in
Dearborn, Michigan and relocated to the museum's Greenfield Village site for
public tours.
In 1924, he won the first of four
Pulitzer Prizes for the book New
Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. He would win additional Pulitzers for Collected Poems in 1931, A Further Range in 1937,
and A Witness Tree
in 1943. Harvard's
1965 alumni directory indicates Frost received an honorary degree there. He
also received honorary degrees from Bates College and from Oxford and Cambridge
universities; and he was the first person to receive two honorary degrees from
Dartmouth College.
Frost
was 86 when he spoke and performed a reading of his poetry at the inauguration
of President John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961. Some two years later, on
January 29, 1963, he died, in Boston, of complications from prostate surgery.
He was buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont. His
epitaph reads, "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
One
of the original collections of Frost materials, to which he himself
contributed, is found in the Special Collections department of the Jones
Library in Amherst, Massachusetts. The collection consists of approximately
twelve thousand items, including original manuscript poems and letters,
correspondence, and photographs, as well as audio and
visual recordings
He has Style and
critical response and Randal Jarrell who often praised Frost’s poetry and
wrote, "Robert Frost,
along with Stevens and Eliot, seems to me the greatest of the American poets of
this century. Frost's virtues are extraordinary. No other living poet has
written so well about the actions of ordinary men; his wonderful dramatic
monologues or dramatic scenes come out of a knowledge of people that few poets
have had, and they are written in a verse that uses, sometimes with absolute
mastery, the rhythms of actual speech." He also praised "Frost's
seriousness and honesty," stating that Frost was particularly skilled at representing
a wide range of human experience in his poems.
The best theme of his literature which
is depicting with chilling starkness the loneliness of the individual in an
indifferent universe (the critic), Frost is most interested in "showing
the human reaction to nature's processes." She also notes that while
Frost's narrative, character-based poems are often satirical, Frost always has
a "sympathetic humor" towards his subjects.
Jarrell lists a selection of the Frost
poems he considers the most masterful, including "The Witch of Coös,"
"Home Burial," "A Servant to Servants," "Directive,"
"Neither Out Too Far Nor In Too Deep," "Provide, Provide," "Acquainted
with the Night," "After Apple Picking," "Mending
Wall," "The Most of It," "An Old Man's Winter Night,"
"To Earthward," "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening,"
"Spring Pools," "The Lovely Shall Be Choosers,"
"Design," and "Desert Places."
In 2003, the critic Charles McGrath
noted that critical views on Frost's poetry have changed over the years (as has
his public image). In 1977, the third volume of Lawrance Thompson's biography
suggested that Frost was a much nastier piece of work than anyone had imagined;
a few years later, thanks to the reappraisal of critics like William H. Pritchard
and Harold Bloom and of younger poets like Joseph Brodsky, he bounced back
again, this time as a bleak and unforgiving modernist. In The Norton Anthology of Modern
Poetry, editors Richard
Ellmann and Robert O'Clair compared and contrasted Frost's unique style to the
work of the poet Edwin Arlington Robinson since them both frequently used New
England settings for their poems.
This is collection poem of Robert Frost
o Includes poems from first three volumes and
the poem The Runaway
·
A
Further Range
(published as Further Range in 1926, as New Poems by Holt, 1936;
Cape, 1937)
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