Sunday 22 July 2012

DSC material -Robert Frost poem - part1

About the Poet
Robert  Frost (26th March, 1874 – 29th January, 1963).
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California.
His father was William Prescott Frost, jr., mother was Isabelle Moodie of Scottish descent
He was an American poet.
His Complete name is Robert Lee Frost.
Rural setting is often found in his poems.
He depicted rural life of New England (America)  in his poems.
His place where he lived is called ‘Pencil Pines’, it is in South Miami Florida
In 1894 he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly. An Elegy published in the November 8, 1894,
On 29th January, 1963, he died, in Boston.
He was buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont.
 His epitaph reads, "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

He received four Pulitzer prizes:

·         1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes
·         1931 for Collected Poems
·         1937 for A Further Range
·         1943 for A Witness Tree
At the age of 86, on 26th January, 1961, he read  his famous  poem "The Gift Outright" at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy .
Important of poem s by Frost:
After Apple-Picking
The Aim Was Song
An Old Man's Winter Night
The Cow in Apple-Time
The Demiurge's Laugh
Devotion
Fire and Ice (1920)
One Step Backward Taken
Out, Out— (1916)
The Oven Bird

Poetry collections
Selected Poems (1923)
New Hampshire (1923;)
Several Short Poems (1924)
The Lovely Shall Be Choosers (1929)
Collected Poems of Robert Frost (1930)
Selected Poems: Third Edition (1934)
Three Poems (1935)
The Gold Hesperidee (1935)
From Snow to Snow (1936)
Collected Poems of Robert Frost (1939)
A Witness Tree (1943)
Come In, and Other Poems (1943)
Steeple Bush (1947)
Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949
Hard Not To Be King (1951)
Aforesaid (1954)
A Remembrance Collection of New Poems (1959)
In the Clearing (1962)
The Poetry of Robert Frost (1969)
A Further Range (1937)
What Fifty Said
Fire And Ice
A Drumlin Woodchuck
Plays
A Way Out: it is a  One Act Play (1929).
The Cow's in the Corn: A One Act Irish Play in Rhyme (1929).
A Masque of Mercy (1947).

Prose work
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (1964).
Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship, by Margaret Bartlett Anderson (1963).
Selected Letters of Robert Frost (1964).
Interviews with Robert Frost (1967).
Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost (1972).
Robert Frost and Sidney Cox: Forty Years of Friendship (1981).
The Notebooks of Robert Frost, edited by Robert Faggen (2007).

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