Mountain Interval
By Robert Frost
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Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this volume we look further at the works of the eminent American writer Robert Frost.
Robert Frost
Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet. Born in San Francisco, Frost moved with his family to Lawrence, Massachusetts following the death of his father, a teacher and editor. There, he attended Lawrence High School and went on to study for a brief time at Dartmouth College before returning home to work as a teacher, factory worker, and newspaper delivery person. Certain of his calling as a poet, Frost sold his first poem in 1894, embarking on a career that would earn him acclaim and honor unlike any American poet before or since. Before his paternal grandfather’s death, he purchased a farm in Derry, New Hampshire for Robert and his wife Elinor. For the next decade, Frost worked on the farm while writing poetry in the mornings before returning to teaching once more. In 1912, having moved to England, Frost published A Boy’s Will, his first book of poems. Through the next several years, he wrote and published poetry while befriending such writers as Edward Thomas and Ezra Pound. In 1915, after publishing North of Boston (1914) in London, Frost returned to the United States to settle on another farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he continued writing and teaching and began lecturing. Over the next several decades, Frost published numerous collections of poems, including New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1924) and Collected Poems (1931), winning a total of four Pulitzer Prizes and establishing his reputation as the foremost American poet of his generation.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I'm utterly indifferent to his subject matter, and his poems evoke no genuine feeling from me.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frost is one of the few great poets who can write narrative verse, including conversation, and have it work both as story and as verse. This collection is held together by a theme of the relationship between humans, each other, and the natural world. There is cruelty, often unintentional or unknowing. But there is beauty in the intersection and the conflicts that result.
"The Road Not Taken" leaves its ambiguous ending hanging there: is it celebration, regret, or is it a facile narrator missing his own point? And in "Snow" the complexities of human feelings swirl with the storm that challenges Meserve to heroism or is it foolishness, or is it love for his wife?
Frost has often been underestimated, more by his fans than by some post-modernists who seem to loathe his writing. This collection bears rereading and savoring for its depths. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Favorites in this collection include "The Road Not Taken," "A Patch of Old Snow," and "Birches."
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I'm sorry, but I just don't like Robert Frost that much. Aside from The Road Not Taken and Mending Wall, I don't care for his poetry.
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Mountain Interval - Robert Frost
Robert Frost – Mountain Interval
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this volume we look further at the works of the eminent American writer Robert Frost.
Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26th 1874 in San Francisco, California. His first few years were spent in the City until with the death of his father on May 5, 1885 the family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts to be with Robert’s grandfather; William Frost, Sr.
Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892 after publishing his first poem in his high school's magazine. He then attended the prestigious Dartmouth College for two months, gaining acceptance to the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and then returned home, first to teach and then rather more menial jobs including delivering newspapers, and working in a light bulb factory.
In 1894 he sold his first poem, My Butterfly. An Elegy
(published November 8, 1894) for $15. Proud of his accomplishment, he proposed marriage to Elinor Miriam White, but she demurred. Frost then went on an excursion to the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and asked Elinor again upon his return. Having graduated, she agreed, and they were married at Lawrence, Massachusetts on December 19, 1895.
Frost attended Harvard University from 1897–1899, but he left due to illness. Shortly before dying, Robert's grandfather purchased a farm for Robert and Elinor in Derry, New Hampshire; and Robert worked the farm for nine years, while writing many of the poems that would later become famous. Ultimately his farming proved unsuccessful and he returned to the field of education as an English teacher at New Hampshire's Pinkerton Academy from 1906 to 1911 and then the New Hampshire Normal School.
In 1912 Frost sailed with his family to Great Britain, to settle in Beaconsfield, just outside London. His first book of poetry, ‘A Boy's Will’, was published in 1913 and the following year ‘North of Boston’.
In 1924, he won the first of four Pulitzer Prizes for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. Further Pulitzers were received for ‘Collected Poems’ in 1931, ‘A Further Range’ in 1937, and ‘A Witness Tree’ in 1943.
Between 1921 and 1963 Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont.
In 1940 he bought a 5 acre plot in South Miami, Florida, naming it Pencil Pines; he spent his winters there for the rest of his life.
Although he never graduated from college, Frost received over 40 honorary degrees, including ones from Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge universities, and was the only person to receive two honorary degrees from Dartmouth College.
In 1960, he received the United States Congressional Gold Medal. At age 86 when he read his well-known poem The Gift Outright
at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961.
Robert Frost died from complications following prostate surgery on January 29th, 1963. He is buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont.
North Of Boston
, Wild Grapes And Other Selected Poetry
and A Boy’s Will
are also available in the Robert Frost series.
Index of Contents
The Road Not Taken
Christmas Trees
An Old Man's Winter Night
The Exposed Nest
A Patch of Old Snow
In the Home Stretch
The Telephone
Meeting and Passing
Hyla Brook
The Oven Bird
Bond and Free
Birches
Pea Brush
Putting in the Seed
A Time to Talk
The Cow in Apple Time
An Encounter
Range-finding
The Hill Wife
The Bonfire
A Girl's Garden
Locked Out
The Last Word of a Bluebird
Out, Out—
Brown's Descent, or the Willy-nilly Slide
The Gum-gatherer
The Line-gang
The Vanishing Red
Snow
The Sound of the Trees
Robert Frost – A Short Biography
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I