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    Mountain Interval
    Mountain Interval
    Mountain Interval
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    Mountain Interval

    By Robert Frost

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    Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this volume we look further at the works of the eminent American writer Robert Frost.

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateAug 20, 2013
    ISBN9781780009902
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    Robert Frost

    Robert Frost (1874–1963) was a critically acclaimed, highly popular American poet. He was awarded four Pulizer Prizes for poetry and served as the poet laureate of Vermont. His most famous works include "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Mending Wall," and "The Road Not Taken."

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    • 2/5
      I'm utterly indifferent to his subject matter, and his poems evoke no genuine feeling from me.
    • 4/5
      Frost is one of the few great poets who can write narrative verse, including conversation, and have it work both as story and as verse. This collection is held together by a theme of the relationship between humans, each other, and the natural world. There is cruelty, often unintentional or unknowing. But there is beauty in the intersection and the conflicts that result.

      "The Road Not Taken" leaves its ambiguous ending hanging there: is it celebration, regret, or is it a facile narrator missing his own point? And in "Snow" the complexities of human feelings swirl with the storm that challenges Meserve to heroism or is it foolishness, or is it love for his wife?

      Frost has often been underestimated, more by his fans than by some post-modernists who seem to loathe his writing. This collection bears rereading and savoring for its depths.
    • 4/5
      Favorites in this collection include "The Road Not Taken," "A Patch of Old Snow," and "Birches."
    • 2/5
      I'm sorry, but I just don't like Robert Frost that much. Aside from The Road Not Taken and Mending Wall, I don't care for his poetry.

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    Mountain Interval - Robert Frost

    Robert Frost – Mountain Interval

    Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage.  In this volume we look further at the works of the eminent American writer Robert Frost.

    Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26th 1874 in San Francisco, California. His first few years were spent in the City until with the death of his father on May 5, 1885 the family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts to be with Robert’s grandfather; William Frost, Sr.

    Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892 after publishing his first poem in his high school's magazine.   He then attended the prestigious Dartmouth College for two months, gaining acceptance to the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and then returned home, first to teach and then rather more menial jobs including delivering newspapers, and working in a light bulb factory.

    In 1894 he sold his first poem, My Butterfly. An Elegy (published November 8, 1894) for $15. Proud of his accomplishment, he proposed marriage to Elinor Miriam White, but she demurred. Frost then went on an excursion to the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and asked Elinor again upon his return. Having graduated, she agreed, and they were married at Lawrence, Massachusetts on December 19, 1895.

    Frost attended Harvard University from 1897–1899, but he left due to illness. Shortly before dying, Robert's grandfather purchased a farm for Robert and Elinor in Derry, New Hampshire; and Robert worked the farm for nine years, while writing many of the poems that would later become famous. Ultimately his farming proved unsuccessful and he returned to the field of education as an English teacher at New Hampshire's Pinkerton Academy from 1906 to 1911 and then the New Hampshire Normal School.

    In 1912 Frost sailed with his family to Great Britain, to settle in Beaconsfield, just outside London. His first book of poetry, ‘A Boy's Will’, was published in 1913 and the following year ‘North of Boston’.

    In 1924, he won the first of four Pulitzer Prizes for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. Further Pulitzers were received for ‘Collected Poems’ in 1931, ‘A Further Range’ in 1937, and ‘A Witness Tree’ in 1943.

    Between 1921 and 1963 Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont.

    In 1940 he bought a 5 acre plot in South Miami, Florida, naming it Pencil Pines; he spent his winters there for the rest of his life.

    Although he never graduated from college, Frost received over 40 honorary degrees, including ones from Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge universities, and was the only person to receive two honorary degrees from Dartmouth College.

    In 1960, he received the United States Congressional Gold Medal.  At age 86 when he read his well-known poem The Gift Outright at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961.

    Robert Frost died from complications following prostate surgery on January 29th, 1963.  He is buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont.

    North Of Boston, Wild Grapes And Other Selected Poetry and A Boy’s Will are also available in the Robert Frost series.

    Index of Contents

    The Road Not Taken

    Christmas Trees

    An Old Man's Winter Night

    The Exposed Nest

    A Patch of Old Snow

    In the Home Stretch

    The Telephone

    Meeting and Passing

    Hyla Brook

    The Oven Bird

    Bond and Free

    Birches

    Pea Brush

    Putting in the Seed

    A Time to Talk

    The Cow in Apple Time

    An Encounter

    Range-finding

    The Hill Wife

    The Bonfire

    A Girl's Garden

    Locked Out

    The Last Word of a Bluebird

    Out, Out—

    Brown's Descent, or the Willy-nilly Slide

    The Gum-gatherer

    The Line-gang

    The Vanishing Red

    Snow

    The Sound of the Trees

    Robert Frost – A Short Biography

    The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

    And sorry I

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