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  "The Imagining Ear"

  Editor:Cynthia RoseFrom:American Decades Primary Sources (Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )

  20043 pages Lecture, Work overvi... Lecture By: Robert Frost Date: 1915 Source: Frost, Robert. "The Imagining Ear." Collected Poems, Prose & Poetry. New York: Library of America, 1995. About the Author: Robert Frost (1874–1963) was born in San...
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  Frost, Robert 1874—1963

  Author:William DoreskiFrom:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1

  199824 pages Critical essay, Biog... Introduction IN 1959 LIONEL Trilling, then one of America’s most prominent literary critics, spoke at a banquet given by Henry Holt and Company on the occasion of Robert Frost’s eighty-fifth birthday. After reviewing...
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  Frost, Robert 1874-1963

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )

  2001 Biography 1450LPOET When Robert Frost recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961, he was widely regarded as the greatest living American poet. Having carefully cultivated the image...
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  Frost, Robert (1874—1963)

  Author:Jonathan N. BarronFrom:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 3

  201718 pages Author bibliography,... Jonathan N. Barron ROBERT FROST MAY be the least understood popular poet the United States ever produced. He is also the most paradoxical. Known as the New England Yankee bard of nature, he actually spent his first...
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  Birches

  Editor:Elizabeth ThomasonFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 13. )

  200120 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Robert Frost 1916 “Birches” is one of Robert Frost’s most popular and beloved poems. Yet, like so much of his work, there is far more happening within the poem than first appears. “Birches” was first published in the...
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  Nothing Gold Can Stay

  Editors:Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 3. )

  199812 pages Poem explanation, Pl... Robert Frost 1923 Published in Robert Frost’s collection New Hampshire in 1923, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” combines Frost’s attraction to details of nature with his tendency to make direct statements of theme. The poem...
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  Fire and Ice

  Editor:Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 7. )

  20009 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Robert Frost 1923 Published in Robert Frost’s 1923 collection, New Hampshire, “Fire and Ice” is straightforward in its message that emotions become destructive when they are too extreme—destructive enough, even, to end...
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  Out, Out—

  Editor:Michael L. LaBlancFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 10. )

  200114 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Robert Frost 1916 “Out, Out—” was first published in the 1916 collection Mountain Interval. Both the description of a terrible accident and a comment on the human need to resume one’s life after a tragedy, “Out, Out—”...
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  The Wood-Pile

  Editor:Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 6. )

  199914 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Robert Frost 1914 “The Wood-Pile” was originally published in 1914 in North of Boston, which was Robert Frost’s second book of verse and the one that developed the author’s distinctive character—that of a New England...
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  The Road Not Taken

  Editors:Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 2. )

  199811 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Robert Frost 1916 “The Road Not Taken,” first published in Mountain Interval in 1916, is one of Frost’s most well-known poems, and its concluding three lines may be his most famous. Like many of Frost’s poems, “The...
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  The Death of the Hired Man

  Editor:Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 4. )

  199912 pages Poem explanation, Bi... Robert Frost 1914 First published in Robert Frost’s collection North of Boston in 1914, “The Death of the Hired Man” is a moderately long, dramatic dialogue that occurs between a farmer, Warren, and his wife, Mary. The...
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  Mending Wall

  Editor:Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 5. )

  199915 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Robert Frost 1914 First published in Robert Frost’s second collection, North of Boston, in 1914, “Mending Wall” is a narrative poem that presents an encounter between two neighbors whose property line is marked by a...
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  To Bedlam and Back: The New American Poetry

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 7: 1960-1969. )

  2001 Topic overview 1550LDonald M. Allen signaled the beginning of a new era in American poetry early in the decade with the publication of his anthology The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 in 1960. In addition to publishing Beat poets from the...
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  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  Editors:Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 1. )

  199812 pages Biography, Critical ... Robert Frost 1923 “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” one of Robert Frost’s most well-known poems, was published in his collection called New Hampshire in 1923. This poem illustrates many of the qualities most...
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  Frost-Resistant Crops

  Authors:Martin Daly and Bryan Thomas DaviesFrom:Biotechnology: In Context (Vol. 1. )

  20123 pages Topic overview The steady increase observed in global human population growth rates has stimulated intense scientific research into ways to improve food production. An important research area is the development of frost-resistant...
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  Frost, Robert 1874-1963

  Author:Lawrance ThompsonFrom:American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies (Vol. 2: Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carson McCullers. )

  197423 pages Critical essay, Biog... Introduction IN ROBERT FROST’S dramatic dialogue entitled “West-running Brook” a farmer and his wife are represented as admiring the contrary direction of a small New England stream which must turn eastward, somewhere,...
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  Mending Wall

  Editor:Anne Marie HachtFrom:Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream (Vol. 2. )

  200713 pages Plot summary, Critic... 1220L"Mending Wall" (1915) is Robert Frost's tribute to one man's notion of being a good neighbor, even as that notion is the opposite of his own. It is the opening poem in Robert Frost's second collection of poetry, North of...
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  1408 | Church and School of Wicca

  Editor:J. Gordon MeltonFrom:Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions (Vol. 1: United States. 9^th ed.)

  20171 page Organization overvie... PO Box 297-IN, Hinton, WV 25951-0297. The Church and School of Wicca was founded in 1968 by Gavin Frost (b. 1930) and his wife, Yvonne Frost. It was among the earliest organizations to develop in the United States out...
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  Jones, Robert Alton

  Editor:Tara E. AtterberryFrom:Who's Who Among African Americans (34^th ed.)

  20191 page Topic overview Lawyer. Personal: born Jan 30, 1944, Houston, TX; Son of Robert J (deceased) and Gloria C; married Velma Chester; children: Jessica Elizabeth. Educ: Tex Southern Univ, BA, 1969; Thurgood Marshall Sch Law, Houston, Tex,...
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  Yggdrasill

  From:UXL Encyclopedia of World Mythology (Vol. 5. )

  20094 pages Character overview 1260LNationality/Culture Norse Pronunciation IG-druh-sil Alternate Names None Appears In The Eddas In Norse mythology, a mighty axis, or pole, ran through the universe in which the gods, giants, and heroes...