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Dec 19, 2013 · During the summers he carried on his courtship with her in person and via the mails. She refused to change her plans, however. While she was away, Robert Frost dutifully helped her family, in particular helping to look after Elinor’s sister, who was prone to panic attacks.
After Rob withdrew from Dartmouth, he intensified his attempts to persuade Elinor to leave St. Lawrence so they could marry. He paid a Massachusetts printer to assemble five of his best poems in two expensively bound pamphlets with the intention of presenting one to Elinor as a kind of wedding gift.
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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...
- Geoffrey Wolff
Jun 22, 1998 · Frost arrived unannounced one morning at the private home where Elinor lived at school. Elinor was shocked to see him. She was not allowed to entertain male visitors except during the proper hours. Elinor refused to see him until she got back home.
Mar 16, 2017 · He desperately wanted to marry his high school girlfriend, Elinor White, pressuring her to quit St. Lawrence University as he had Dartmouth. She refused. Frost calculated that the best way to win her over was to present her with a volume of his first poems.
Feb 5, 2014 · Feb. 4, 2014. Few figures in American literature have suffered as strangely divided an afterlife as Robert Frost. Even before his death in 1963, he was canonized as a rural sage, beloved by a ...
Mar 16, 2017 · Summary. Searching in the mid-1930s for new “vital places” to restore his equanimity, Robert Lee Frost found one in Concord Corners, Vermont. 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.
