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When Elinor went to college and Frost stayed in Lawrence, he thought she had fallen in love with another young man. He demanded she leave college, but she refused. ... Robert Frost: A Biography ...
These two books, like the bulk of what has been written about Frost, concern the period of fame only. "Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost" begins in effect in 1917, the poet's 43rd year. It is made of some 168 letters, about 50 of them written by Mrs. Frost.
He has published four books of poetry and critical books on Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill. His biography James Dickey: The World as a Lie was runner-up for a Southern Book Critics Circle Award in 2000. Excerpted from The Life of Robert Frost: A Critical Biography, Wiley Blackwell, $68.
Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892, co-valedictorian with the young woman who was later to become his wife, Elinor White. He attended Dartmouth College for one semester, but he was restless and returned home to teach and to work at various jobs. Frost’s first published poem, “My Butterfly: An Elegy” appeared in the New York
Frost was married to Elinor Miriam White and they had six children. In March 1894, The Independent in Lawrence, Massachusetts published Frost's poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy," his first published work, which earned him $15. At this time, Frost made an important decision, deciding to devote his time to poetry instead of teaching.
Feb 5, 2014 · Frost and his wife, Elinor, with their children, in 1915. The Harvard edition will contain hundreds of previously little known or unpublished letters, including family correspondence.
Meyer's new biography reveals numerous things for the first time - but, most notably, the fact that after Elinor Frost's death in 1938, Frost became passionately involved, in his sixties, with his secretary (the wife of a Harvard lecturer), who dominated the last twenty-five years of his life and inspired his most intense love poems.
