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Mar 26, 2017 · Heartbroken, poet Robert Frost planned suicide in local swamp, professor says. By Adrienne Berard. March 26, 2017. 0. Robert Frost’s dogged courtship of Elinor Miriam White ended with her...
Dec 10, 1972 · Book Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost, ed by A Grade with foreword by L Frost, revd by P Davison; illus ... the death of his wife 25 years before himself, the suicide of a son, another ...
Dec 16, 2021 · In 1938, four years after Marjorie’s death, after years of marital discord, Elinor died of heart disease, refusing to call Frost to her deathbed. Their son Carol, troubled by mental illness since childhood, slid into despair and killed himself with his hunting rifle in 1940.
Aug 9, 1970 · His son Carol has not yet, by 1938, committed suicide, but two of his daughters have entered upon, and dissolved, ill‐fated marriages, and the third, after intermittent mental ill ness, has...
Mar 20, 1977 · The book begins with Elinor's death in 1938, and Frost's near nervous collapse because she never forgave him his trespasses. At once he attempts to break apart the marriage of two friends who have ...
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Mar 16, 2017 · Frost made an exception with Untermeyer, writing him about Elinor Miriam White's cancer as well as the doctors’ fear that she might die of a heart attack during the operation. As illness and thoughts of death made her less inhibited, Elinor proved once more that she was no rarefied muse like Petrarch's Laura or Dante's Beatrice.
It documents but does not much explore the terrible sequence of sorrows that stunned the poet's later life -- the death of a daughter from childbed fever, the death of his wife 25 years before himself, the suicide of a son, another daughter insane for life. Frost, though he grieved, seems to have taken these calamities with a certain stoicism ...
