By Robert Frost; Donald Sheehy et al. (eds.)
The Letters of Robert Frost, quantity 2: 1920–1928 is the second one installment of Harvard’s five-volume variation of the poet’s correspondence. approximately 300 letters within the critically-acclaimed first quantity had by no means earlier than been gathered; right here, just about 400 are collected for the 1st time. Volume 2 includes letters to a few one hundred sixty correspondents: friends and family; colleagues, fellow writers, visible artists, editors, and publishers; educators of all types; farmers, librarians, and admirers.
In the years lined the following, book of Selected Poems, New Hampshire, and West-Running Brook enhanced Frost’s stature in the US and in a foreign country, and the calls for of handling his career―as public speaker, poet, and teacher―intensified. a significant portion of the correspondence is dedicated to Frost’s appointments on the college of Michigan and Amherst collage, through which he performed a huge half in staking out the positions poets might later carry in American universities. different letters convey Frost supporting to form the Bread Loaf university of English and its affiliated Writers’ Conference. We come across him discussing his craft with scholars and fostering the careers of more youthful poets. His observations (and reservations) approximately educators are illuminating and stay pertinent. And kinfolk life―with all its joys and sorrows, hardships and satisfactions―is by no means under primary to Frost’s concerns.
Robert Frost used to be a masterful prose stylist, frequently terrific and continuously engaging. completely annotated and observed via a biographical thesaurus, chronology, and targeted index, those letters are either the checklist of a outstanding literary existence and a distinct contribution to American literature.
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Has it positively to be this month? Somebody must be found to take care of the class I suppose. Except for that I don’t see why I should be expected to come to Bowdoin when you are away. You couldn’t ask me over toward the middle or end of April now could you? If not I shall just have to send you a poem or two in manuscript and ask you to call it square till I can have you to see us on the farm some day not too distant. 12 Always yours sincerely Robert Frost [To Lesley Frost. ” ALS. H. March 11 1920 Dear Lesley: Two doubts in sending this precious stuff: will it ever reach you?
He did it also at the Bread Loaf School of English, at the Institute for Modern Literature at Bowdoin College (1925), in residencies at Wesleyan College and elsewhere, and, after 1926, at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the early success of which his presence did much to assure. The letters and telegrams gathered here show Frost not only haggling out the best terms possible for himself as Fellow in the Creative Arts at Michigan, but also, after he left the position, ensuring that the fellowship survived him by conferring with administrators and faculty members as to suitable candidates.
For the Frosts, education had always been a family affair. His children generally shared their father’s ambivalent attitude toward educational institutions. For the most part they had been taught at home, in ways that made little distinction between educating and rearing a child, or between lessons and play. Frost opens with a cocksure piece of advice intended for a young man, most likely Harold Newman, who had two months earlier entered Amherst College: “The proper study of the school boy is his professors, you tell Harold from me.
