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...Frost and Elinor White were married in 1895. A woman of competence and quiet charm, Elinor managed the money and her impractical husband, listened to his poems. Two years after their marriage...
...Frost got his grandfather to send him to Harvard. He wanted to read more Latin and Greek, but the irritations of academic "busy work" exasperated him beyond his limited patience-an exasperation which has made his relations with the academic world both stimulating and stormy. He quit after two years. His grandfather bought him a farm in Deny, N.H. and turned him loose. For twelve years, while Elinor bore children,-Frost raised chickens, taught school, battled the grudging soil, fought back encroaching witch grass and sheep laurel. Working long after the children were in bed and the chores done...
...poets who helped form the idiom spoke with classical tongues. He read Theocritus and Vergil, Horace and Catullus. (In any possible hereafter, says Frost, he would like most to dine with Theocritus). Keats and Shelley were uncongenially flowery. He learned the dramatic lyric from Browning, decided that what he wanted was "the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words." He set himself such exercises...
...Then Frost would rewrite the sentences...
Under Thatch. In 1912, Frost sold the farm and, partly because his wife confessed to a yen to "live under thatch," and partly because living was cheap there, they sailed for England. At 38, he had never talked to another poet...