Robert Frost A Life - Softcover

Parini, Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712664874 ISBN 13: 9780712664875

Verlag: Pimlico, 2001

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Reseña del editor:

In this important new biography of Robert Frost (1874-1963), Jay Parini offers a major reassessment of the life and work of America's premier poet of the twentieth century and the only true 'national poet' America has yet produced.Elegantly yet simply, Parini traces the various stages of Frost's colourful life: his boyhood in San Francisco, his young manhood in rural New England, his college days at Dartmouth and Harvard, the years of farming in New Hampshire, and the sojourn in England, where he befriended Edward Thomas, Ezra Pound and other major figures of modern poetry. Parini follows the astounding rise of Frost's fame and fortunes in America upon his return in 1915. He shows how Frost gradually evolved from poet to cultural icon, becoming a friend of presidents (he read at President Kennedy's inauguration and visited Khrushchev on his behalf), and a sage whose announcements attracted world press attention.Parini also takes the reader back to the poems, which he reads closely, offering a sensitive roadmap to this remarkable verbal planet.

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A biography of the American poet Robert Frost. Recounting Frost's meeting with Rupert Brooke, Lascelles Abercrombie and Edward Thomas on his visit to England in 1912 where he gained recognition as a major young poet. Frost was awarded the Pulitzer prize four times. Includes interviews with those who knew Frost throughout his life.

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• Verlag: Pimlico
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0712664874
• ISBN 13: 9780712664875
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512