Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother, an orphaned immigrant from Scotland, was brought up by a wealthy uncle in Ohio. Well-educated and an earnest supporter of Henry George's single tax (George was a close family friend), Isabella Frost tried to fill the gaps in her son's erratic education, reading him poetry and Scottish history...
Hole in the Bucket. When he was eleven, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family penniless. His mother brought Robert and his sister (two years younger) back to New England. Grandfather Frost, an overseer in a Lawrence, Mass, woolen mill, received them without enthusiasm. "We were the hole in the bucket," says Frost. His mother went to work teaching school, and young Robert trudged to high school in his grandfather's cut-down suit. He worked in the mills, nailed shoes, helped farmers. He began to read Latin and Greek avidly, wrote his first poem (in blank verse...
...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...