Author: Jay Parini Publisher: Henry Holt and Company ISBN: 1466877804 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 528
Book Description
This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce this definitive and insightful biography of both the public and private man. While he depicts the various stages of Frost's colorful life, Parini also sensitively explores the poet's psyche, showing how he dealt with adversity, family tragedy, and depression. By taking the reader into the poetry itself, which he reads closely and brilliantly, Parini offers an insightful road map to Frost's remarkable world.
Author: Henry Hart Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119103657 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 448
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The Life of Robert Frost presents a unique and rich approach to the poet that includes original genealogical research concerning Frost’s ancestors, and a demonstration of how mental illness plagued the Frost family and heavily influenced Frost’s poetry. A widely revealing biography of Frost that discusses his often perplexing journey from humble roots to poetic fame, revealing new details of Frost’s life Takes a unique approach by giving attention to Frost’s genealogy and the family history of mental illness, presenting a complete picture of Frost’s complexity Discusses the traumatic effect on Frost of his father’s early death and the impact on his poetry and outlook Presents original information on the influence of his mother’s Swedenborgian mysticism
Author: Jeffrey Meyers Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 9780306808906 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 734
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Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and numerous short stories, he explored such universal themes as stoicism in adversity, as well as our futile struggles against nature and mortality.This evocative, sympathetic biography illuminates the events that informed Hemingway's vigorous life: an accident-prone youth and early rivalry with his father; his experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II; his stormy relationships with writers and women; his sudden fame, slow decline, and suicide. Based on previously unavailable information and exclusive interviews, Hemingway enriches anyone's understanding and appreciation of America's most important twentieth-century writer.
Author: Sara McIntosh Wooten Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 9780766026278 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 134
Book Description
These biographies for teen readers describe the lives and achievements of well-known, significant Americans of the 20th and 21st centuries using color layouts, informative sidebars, and lots of supplementary data.
Author: Natalie S. Bober Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0805094075 Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION Languages : en Pages : 46
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A picture book reimagining of the life of the eminent American poet is told from the perspective of his daughter, Lesley, and explores such topics as his decision to become a poet instead of a baseball player, the rural life on a New Hampshire farm that inspired many of his works and his struggles to get his poetry published.
Author: Henry Hart Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470658525 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 445
Book Description
The Life of Robert Frost presents a unique and rich approach to the poet that includes original genealogical research concerning Frost’s ancestors, and a demonstration of how mental illness plagued the Frost family and heavily influenced Frost’s poetry. A widely revealing biography of Frost that discusses his often perplexing journey from humble roots to poetic fame, revealing new details of Frost’s life Takes a unique approach by giving attention to Frost’s genealogy and the family history of mental illness, presenting a complete picture of Frost’s complexity Discusses the traumatic effect on Frost of his father’s early death and the impact on his poetry and outlook Presents original information on the influence of his mother’s Swedenborgian mysticism
Author: Jeffrey Meyers Publisher: ISBN: Category : Poets, American Languages : en Pages : 500
Book Description
Robert Frost is certainly the most widely read and most loved of American poets. After his death in 1963, Frost's authorized biographer wrote a three-volume work which deeply distorted the personality of the poet. Meyers has returned to the sources and survivors to give readers a radically new interpretation of Frost's life. Those who thought they knew Frost's life and work will be surprised by the impressive and sympathetic figure they meet in these pages. of photos.
Author: Brian Hall Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101202785 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 577
Book Description
The life of Robert Frost, brilliantly re-imagined by the author of the acclaimed I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company Called "a spellbinding prose stylist"(Los Angeles Times), Brian Hall drew extraordinary praise for his novel I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, in which he captured the personal lives of Lewis and Clark. Now he turns his talents to Robert Frost, arguably America's most famous poet. Through the revelatory voice of fiction, Hall gives us an artist toughened by tragedy, whose intimacy with death gave life to his poetry-for him, the preeminent symbol of man's form-giving power. This is the exquisitely rendered portrait of one man's rages, guilt, generosity, and defiant persistence-as much a fictional masterwork as it is a meditation on greatness.
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