Robert Frost: Biography, Poems, Quotes, The Road Not Taken, Education (1999)

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American writer. His work was ab initio published in England before it was published in America. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080...

He is extremely regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American conversational speech.[2] His work often employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, exploitation them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. One of the most popular and uncritically respected American writers of the twentieth century,[3] Frost was honored often during his life, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for writerry. He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, about an artistic institution."[3] He was awarded the legislature Gold decoration in 1960 for his writeric works. On July 22, 1961, Frost was named writer laureate of Vermont.

In 2003, the critic Charles McGrath noted that critical views on Frost's writerry have changed over the years (as has his public image). In an article called "The Vicissitudes of Literary Reputation," McGrath wrote, "Robert Frost ... at the time of his death in 1963 was generally considered to be a New England folkie ... In 1977, the third volume of Lawrance Thompson's life recommended that Frost was a much nastier piece of work than anyone had imagined; a few years later, thanks to the revaluation of critics like William H. Pritchard and Harold Bloom and of jr. writers like Joseph Brodsky, he bounced back once again, this time as a bleak and unforgiving modernist."[24]

In The Norton collection of Modern writerry, editors Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair compared and contrasted Frost's unique style to the work of the writer Edwin Arlington Robinson since they some often used New England settings for their poems. nevertheless, they state that Frost's writerry was "less [consciously] literary" and that this was possibly due to the influence of English and Irish writers like Thomas Hardy and W.B. Yeats. They note that Frost's poems "show a boffo nisus for utter conversationalism" and always try to remain down to earth, piece at the same time exploitation traditional forms despite the trend of American writerry towards free verse which Frost magnificently aforesaid was "'like playing lawn tennis without a net.'"[25]

In providing an summary of Frost's style, the writerry Foundation makes the same point, placing Frost's work "at the crossroads of nineteenth-century American writerry [with regard to his use of traditional forms] and modernism [with his use of idiomatical language and ordinary, every day subject matter]." They besides note that Frost believed that "the voluntary restrictions of meter in form" was more helpful than harmful because he could focus on the content of his poems instead of concerning himself with creating "innovative" new verse forms.[26]

An earlier 1963 study by the writer James Radcliffe Squires spoke to the distinction of Frost as a writer whose verse soars more for the difficulty and skill by which he attains his final visions, than for the philosophical purity of the visions themselves. "'He has written at a time when the choice for the writer seemed to lie among the forms of despair: Science, philosophical doctrine, or the religion of the past century…Frost has refused all of these and in the refusal has long seemed less undramatically committed than others…But no, he must be seen as undramatically uncommitted to the single solution…in so far as Frost allows to some fact and intuition a bright kingdom, he speaks for galore of us. in so far as he speaks through an amalgam of senses and sure experience so that his writerry seems a homesick memory with overtones touching some conceivable future, he speaks better than most of us. That is to say, as a writer must."'

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