I am posting a bio on Robert Frost. I know, I have not posted in like, weeks, BUT: I'm just busy.... I know I always give that excuse, but what else can I say?
Anyway, Robert Frost, one of my fave poets.
Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, and after his fathers
death in 1885, he moved with his family to Lawrence, Massachusetts,
where he became interested in reading and writing poetry while in high
school. Frost attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University, but
never received a degree. He was a jack of all trades, and had many
different occupations after leaving school, including a teacher, a
cobbler, and an editor of the local newspaper, the "Lawrence Sentinel".
His first published poem was "
My Butterfly: An Elegy"
in the New York literary journal "The Independent" in 1894. A year
later he married Elinor Miriam White, with whom he shared valedictorian
honours with at his Massachusetts High School.
In the following years, he operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire,
and taught at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, he sold his farm and
moved his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to
his writing. His efforts to establish himself in England were
immediately successful, and in 1913 he published "A Boy's Will",
followed a year later by "North of Boston". It was in England where he
met and was influenced by such poets at Rupert Brooke and Robert Graves,
and where he established his life-long friendship with
Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work.
Frost returned to the United states in 1915, and by the 1920's, he
was the most celebrated poet in North America, and was granted four
Pulitzer Prizes. Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in
Massachusetts and Vermont, and died on January 29, 1963 in Boston.
And here's my favorite poem by him.......Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy evening. (Very famous poem!)
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of the easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He moved
to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and
writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard,
though he never earned a formal degree.
Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence
Sentinel. His first professional poem, "My Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper
The Independent.
In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major
inspiration in his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple moved to
England in 1912, after their New Hampshire farm failed, and it was
abroad that Frost met and was influenced by such contemporary British
poets as
Edward Thomas,
Rupert Brooke, and
Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet
Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work.
By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two full-length collections,
A Boy's Will and
North of Boston,
and his reputation was established. By the nineteen-twenties, he was
the most celebrated poet in America, and with each new book—including
New Hampshire (1923),
A Further Range (1936),
Steeple Bush (1947), and
In the Clearing (1962)—his fame and honors (including four Pulitzer Prizes) increased.
Though his work is principally associated with the life and landscape
of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and
metrics who remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic movements and
fashions of his time, Frost is anything but a merely regional or minor
poet. The author of searching and often dark meditations on universal
themes, he is a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to
language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological complexity of
his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is infused with
layers of ambiguity and irony.
In a 1970 review of
The Poetry of Robert Frost, the poet
Daniel Hoffman
describes Frost's early work as "the Puritan ethic turned astonishingly
lyrical and enabled to say out loud the sources of its own delight in
the world," and comments on Frost's career as The American Bard: "He
became a national celebrity, our nearly official Poet Laureate, and a
great performer in the tradition of that earlier master of the literary
vernacular, Mark Twain."
About Frost, President John F. Kennedy said, "He has bequeathed his
nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever
gain joy and understanding."
Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963.
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Robert
Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He moved to New
England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and
writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard,
though he never earned a formal degree.
Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence
Sentinel. His first professional poem, "My Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper
The Independent.
In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major
inspiration in his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple moved to
England in 1912, after their New Hampshire farm failed, and it was
abroad that Frost met and was influenced by such contemporary British
poets as
Edward Thomas,
Rupert Brooke, and
Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet
Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work.
By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two full-length collections,
A Boy's Will and
North of Boston,
and his reputation was established. By the nineteen-twenties, he was
the most celebrated poet in America, and with each new book—including
New Hampshire (1923),
A Further Range (1936),
Steeple Bush (1947), and
In the Clearing (1962)—his fame and honors (including four Pulitzer Prizes) increased.
Though his work is principally associated with the life and landscape
of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and
metrics who remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic movements and
fashions of his time, Frost is anything but a merely regional or minor
poet. The author of searching and often dark meditations on universal
themes, he is a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to
language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological complexity of
his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is infused with
layers of ambiguity and irony.
In a 1970 review of
The Poetry of Robert Frost, the poet
Daniel Hoffman
describes Frost's early work as "the Puritan ethic turned astonishingly
lyrical and enabled to say out loud the sources of its own delight in
the world," and comments on Frost's career as The American Bard: "He
became a national celebrity, our nearly official Poet Laureate, and a
great performer in the tradition of that earlier master of the literary
vernacular, Mark Twain."
About Frost, President John F. Kennedy said, "He has bequeathed his
nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever
gain joy and understanding."
Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963.
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192#sthash.9FX6mUAw.dpuf
Robert
Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He moved to New
England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and
writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard,
though he never earned a formal degree.
Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence
Sentinel. His first professional poem, "My Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper
The Independent.
In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major
inspiration in his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple moved to
England in 1912, after their New Hampshire farm failed, and it was
abroad that Frost met and was influenced by such contemporary British
poets as
Edward Thomas,
Rupert Brooke, and
Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet
Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work.
By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two full-length collections,
A Boy's Will and
North of Boston,
and his reputation was established. By the nineteen-twenties, he was
the most celebrated poet in America, and with each new book—including
New Hampshire (1923),
A Further Range (1936),
Steeple Bush (1947), and
In the Clearing (1962)—his fame and honors (including four Pulitzer Prizes) increased.
Though his work is principally associated with the life and landscape
of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and
metrics who remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic movements and
fashions of his time, Frost is anything but a merely regional or minor
poet. The author of searching and often dark meditations on universal
themes, he is a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to
language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological complexity of
his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is infused with
layers of ambiguity and irony.
In a 1970 review of
The Poetry of Robert Frost, the poet
Daniel Hoffman
describes Frost's early work as "the Puritan ethic turned astonishingly
lyrical and enabled to say out loud the sources of its own delight in
the world," and comments on Frost's career as The American Bard: "He
became a national celebrity, our nearly official Poet Laureate, and a
great performer in the tradition of that earlier master of the literary
vernacular, Mark Twain."
About Frost, President John F. Kennedy said, "He has bequeathed his
nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever
gain joy and understanding."
Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963.
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192#sthash.9FX6mUAw.dpuf
