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Aug 9, 1970 · Thompson, Lawrance: Robert Frost. The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 ... His son Carol has not yet, by 1938, committed suicide, but two of his daughters have entered upon, and dissolved, ill‐fated ...
Jan 28, 2017 · 7. HE OUTLIVED FOUR OF HIS SIX CHILDREN. Frost knew tragedy. Of his six kids—daughters Elinor, Irma, Marjorie, and Lesley, and sons Carol, and Elliot—only two outlasted him.Elinor died shortly ...
This collection was published after several unfortunate tragedies had occurred in Frost's personal life, including his daughter Marjorie's death in 1934, his wife's death in 1938, and his son Carol's suicide in 1940. Despite these losses, Frost continued to work on his poetry and eventually fell in love with his secretary Kay Marrison, who ...
Carol Frost was born in 1948 in Lowell, Massachusetts. She studied at the Sorbonne and earned degrees from the State University of Oneonta and Syracuse University. The author of numerous collections of poetry, including Alias City (2019), Entwined : Three Lyric Sequences (2014), Honeycomb: Poems (2010), The...
Dec 8, 2020 · Once taken flight, she will soar, fly too close to the sun, but such audacity, whether suicide or passion, releases the soul to reveal the truth, the unraveling of earth’s labyrinthine deceptions and confusions. Before leaving this beautiful collection, focus must be sharpened on Frost’s form and prosody.
his public life, Robert Frost suffered several personal tragedies in close succession. In 1934, his daughter Marjorie died. Her death has been described as Robert’s great tragedy and final blow to Elinor, who died of a heart attack in 1938. In 1940, Robert Frost’s only remaining son, Carol, committed suicide. Frost’s daughter, Irma
They had six children: Eliot (1896-1904, died of cholera), Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899-1983), Carol (1902-1940, committed suicide), Irma (1903-1967, institutionalized for mental illness from 1947), Marjorie (1905-1934, died of complications from childbirth), and Elinor Bettina (1907, died three days after birth).
