ROBERT FROST: Trial by Existence

by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 13, 1960

This is a warm, loving and sensitive biography of Robert Frost, written with authority from a long and rich personal acquaintance with the poet. The facts about Frost's life are not exciting unless one gives precedence, as he does, to the inner life. His fatherless childhood was economically spare, and relatives offered him the education at Dartmouth and Harvard but he could not endure collegiate life for long. He left both colleges in his first year, and was mostly self-taught in English- his calling was poetry and he knew it. He married, moved to a farm in New Hampshire, wrote, and the most dramatic break came at the end of twenty years when he decided to take his whole family to England, where his first books were published. Back in America, he was offered teaching posts- and his poetry about the ""tender touching things"" of New England continued to appear, while behind the tenderness was a rock-ribbed firmness and individuality. This biography follows Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant's earlier memoir of Willa Cather and it is a fine interpretation and tribute.

Pub Date: June 13, 1960

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Publisher: Holt

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1960

Categories: NONFICTION