Robert Frost: References & Edit History
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Assorted References
- “Carpe Diem”
- In carpe diem
- contribution to American literature
- definition of poetry
- Franconia, New Hampshire
- In Grafton
- use of blank verse
- In blank verse
authorship of
- “Death of the Hired Man, The”
- “Mending Wall”
- In Mending Wall
- “Road Not Taken, The”
- “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
history of
- Frost Award
- In Frost Medal
- “Sports Illustrated”
Additional Reading
Lawrance Thompson, Robert Frost, 3 vol., vol. 3 coauthored with R.H. Winnick (1966–76), is a comprehensive biography. A fine early biography is Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence (1960). William H. Pritchard, Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered, 2nd ed. (1993), is a provocative revisionist biography. Other biographies are Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Frost: A Biography (1996); and Jay Parini, Robert Frost: A Life (1998). Philip L. Gerber, Robert Frost, rev. ed. (1982), provides a thorough introduction to Frost’s life and works. Henry Hart, The Life of Robert Frost (2017), is a critical biography.
Selected Letters of Robert Frost, ed. by Lawrance Thompson (1964); and The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer, ed. by Louis Untermeyer (1963), provide segments of his correspondence. The Letters of Robert Frost: Volume 1, 1886–1920, ed. by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, and Robert Faggen (2014); and The Letters of Robert Frost: Volume 2, 1920–1928, ed. by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, Robert Bernard Hass, and Henry Atmore (2016), cover Frost’s early life. The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3: 1929–1936, ed. by Mark Richardson, Donald Sheehy, Robert Bernard Hass, and Henry Atmore (2021), illuminates Frost’s life as he was coming into the fullness of his creative powers. The Notebooks of Robert Frost, ed. by Robert Faggen (2006), is the first scholarly edition of Frost’s personal notebooks. Frank Lentricchia and Melissa Christensen Lentricchia, Robert Frost: A Bibliography, 1913–1974 (1976), gives reliable data concerning the publication of Frost’s works.
Elaine Barry (compiler), Robert Frost on Writing (1973), collects letters, prefaces, reviews, lectures, and interviews in which Frost offers ideas concerning the composition and purpose of poetry. George W. Nitchie, Human Values in the Poetry of Robert Frost (1960); and Reuben A. Brower, The Poetry of Robert Frost (1963), are excellent early critical studies. Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing (1977, reissued with a new afterword, 1990); and Judith Oster, Toward Robert Frost: The Reader and the Poet (1991), stand out among subsequent 20th-century studies. Other critical studies include Mark Richardson, The Ordeal of Robert Frost (1997); Tyler Hoffman, Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry (2001); Tim Kendall, The Art of Robert Frost (2012); and George Monteiro, Robert Frost and the New England Renaissance (2015).
Useful overviews of Frost’s life and work are provided in Robert Faggen (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost (2001); Nancy Lewis Tuten and John Zubizarreta (eds.), The Robert Frost Encyclopedia (2001); and Deirdre Fagan, Critical Companion to Robert Frost (2007).
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Article History
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Media added. | Dec 17, 2024 | ||
Media added. | Dec 13, 2024 | ||
Top Questions updated. | Oct 22, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: Academia - Robert Frost's poetry. | Oct 21, 2024 | ||
Corrected display issue. | Sep 18, 2024 | ||
Added more information about Frost's children and wife. | Sep 03, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: Annenberg Learner - Robert Frost. | Jul 29, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: The Washington Post - The Dark Side of Frost. | May 27, 2024 | ||
Anniversary information added. | Mar 22, 2024 | ||
First paragraph modernization. | Mar 05, 2024 | ||
Anniversary information added. | Jan 25, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Robert Frost. | Dec 03, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: American National Biography - Robert Frost. | Jul 02, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: Poets.org - Biography of Robert Frost. | Apr 24, 2023 | ||
Added cross-references. | Dec 10, 2020 | ||
Add new Web site: The Poetry Archive - Biography of Robert Frost. | Jan 10, 2019 | ||
Add new Web site: Official Site of Robert Frost. | Jan 10, 2019 | ||
Article revised. | Dec 18, 2017 | ||
Media added. | Dec 18, 2017 | ||
Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." | Nov 15, 2017 | ||
Bibliography revised. | Oct 27, 2017 | ||
Add new Web site: All Poetry - Biography of Robert Frost. | May 05, 2017 | ||
Add new Web site: The Literature Network - Biography of Robert Frost. | Nov 30, 2012 | ||
Bibliography revised and updated. | Feb 28, 2008 | ||
Added new Web site: Academy of American Poets - Biography of Robert Frost. |
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Added new Web site: The Road Not Taken: Robert Frost's Lesser Known Poems. | May 22, 2006 | ||
Article revised. | Dec 07, 2000 | ||
Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |