You come too : my journey with Robert Frost / Lesley Lee Francis.
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TextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015Description: xvi, 246 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780813937458 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0813937450 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- My journey with Robert Frost
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Main Library | Biography | Frost, R. F818 | Available | 33111008364834 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live "a life that goes rather poetically." The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In You Come Too, Frost?s granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines priceless personal memories and rigorous research to create a portrait of Frost and the women, including herself, whose lives he touched.
Francis provides a vivid picture of Frost the family man, revealing him to be intensely engaged rather than the aloof artist that is commonly portrayed. She shares with us the devastation Frost and Elinor experienced when faced with tragic illnesses, both physical and mental, and the untimely death of family members. Elinor?s own death added to the poet?s despair and unleashed complex feelings throughout the family. (Francis?s mother would lament the toll taken on Elinor by what she perceived as Frost?s "selfishness" in the life he had chosen.)
This is also the story of Lesley Frost, Francis?s remarkable mother, who struggled to emerge from her celebrated father?s shadow, while, as one of the people closest to him, sharing his intuitive impulse to write and to indulge their mutual love of books and poetry. Francis would herself become yet another writer and, like her grandfather and mother before her, a teacher--despite sharing Frost?s sense of being "imperfectly academic." In addition, Francis explores Frost?s professional relationships with women outside the family, such as the poets Harriet Monroe, Amy Lowell, and Susan Hayes Ward.
Francis?s invaluable insights into Frost?s poetry and her inclusion of previously unpublished family writings and photographs make this book essential to Frost scholarship. But You Come Too will appeal to anyone interested in this great poet?s life and work. It also reveals unforgettable stories of strong, independent women and their passion to create and share poetry.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index.
Before 1938. The Derry years ; Robert Frost and the child ; The English years ; Franconia, New Hampshire ; The stone house and the gully ; Robert Frost and women ; Elinor Miriam White Frost ; Lesley Frost -- After 1938. Gainesville and the death of Elinor Frost ; Kathleen Morrison and the Homer Noble Farm ; Mounting family tragedies ; Robert Frost's religious views ; The war years in Washington, D.C. ; On assignment in Spain ; Lesley Lee: education and employment ; Frost studies and Lawrance Thompson ; Robert Frost and Harvard ; Robert Frost's interest in archaeology, Indians, and Pre-Columbian artifacts ; Robert and Lesley Frost: the lure of art -- Robert Frost: the Spanish connection ; Honorary degrees in England and Ireland ; Robert Frost's eighty-fifth birthday and Lionel Trilling ; Robert Frost and politics ; The death of Robert Frost ; "Education by Poetry": Escuela de la Tahona.
"Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live 'a life that goes rather poetically.' The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In [this book], Frost's granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines ... personal memories and ... research to create a portrait of Frost and the women, including herself, whose lives he touched"--Dust jacket flap.