Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muse of Robert Frost, No. i of living U. S, poets, has been his wife. Since her death, a year ago, he has gathered practically all his published poetry (about a third of what he has written) in his Collected Poems. In the book's characteristically half-evasive, half-outspoken foreword, The Figure a Poem Makes, Frost says: "It [a poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love." Frost's book begins in knowledge and ends in perplexity; but the figure it makes is Frost himself...
Robert Lee Frost, a ninth-generation New Englander (whose Yankee father expressed his Southern sympathies by naming his son after General Robert E. Lee), was born in San Francisco, where his father had become embroiled in politics, in 1875. After his father's death, his schoolteacher mother moved the family back to New England. Frost went to high school in Lawrence, Mass. At school, a passage in Virgil's Georgics suddenly made him understand what it was to be a poet. He began to write; but meanwhile, after Dartmouth proved too academic...
...Omits Frost's foreword...
Almost all of Frost's earlier poems were attempts to make himself more completely known to this womanly presence who was his chosen judge. But never once did his wife give his poems a word of praise, though she knew them like the palm of her hand. Frost's early poems read like invocations of a conscience which, if it left him, would leave him lost-yet whose presence made every day, however perfect, a judgment day. But even these early poems show Frost almost as willing to play hide-&-seek with judgment as to face...
...this period-when his farm finally sank under him, Frost took to schoolteaching again - the Frosts thought of moving into even deeper isolation, considered going to Vancouver. At this juncture Mrs. Frost made the only romantic remark her husband ever heard her make: "Let's go to England and live under thatch." Frost sold his farm and the family sailed for England in September 1912. There, in a thatched cottage in Beaconsfield, he began to associate with literary professionals (Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Edward Thomas). In England he published his first book of poems...