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2 unusual facts about Robert Frost: A Life


Robert Frost: A Life

Robert Frost: A Life is a 2000 biography of the American poet Robert Frost written by Jay Parini.

Kirkus Reviews "For the 125th anniversary of the poets birth, here is neither hagiography nor pathography. Parini's life magnificently details how Frost, through fortitude and lifelong dedication to craft, sought to heed his own advice to be whole again beyond confusion."


Anthony Burgess: A Life

Anthony Burgess: A Life is the title of a biography of the novelist and critic Anthony Burgess (1917-93) by Roger Lewis.

Bloomability

He also recites in the novel Robert Frost's well known poem, The Road Not Taken in a speech to the student body as the school year closes.

Castleton State College

Caroline Woodruff hired staff with advanced degrees and broadened her students' exposure to the world by bringing people such as Helen Keller, Robert Frost, and Norman Rockwell to Castleton.

Chaplin: A Life

An ex-London street urchin, Chaplin used humor to creatively transform real life boyhood experiences of homelessness into his screen character's picaresque adventures as the streetwise Little Tramp.

Charles Ghigna

Ghigna's influences on his early writing attempts included his parents, especially his creative mother, poets Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, Ogden Nash, John Updike, and James Dickey.

Clara Sipprell

Over the next forty years she would photograph some of the most famous artists, writers, dancers and other cultural icons of the time, including Alfred Stieglitz, Pearl S. Buck, Charles E. Burchfield, Fyodor Chaliapin, Ralph Adams Cram, W. E. B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Granville Hicks, Malvina Hoffman, Langston Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Isamu Noguchi, Maxfield Parrish and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Other writers that corresponded with Canfield Fisher included Henry Seidel Canby, Richard Wright, Heywood Broun, Witter Bynner, Isak Dinesen, and Robert Frost.

Erik Reece

It includes the work of modern American poets (among them, Robert Frost, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth, Charles Wright) plus that of four classical Chinese poets, who wandered and wrote about an area of southeastern China that is similar in landscape and ecology to the eastern woodlands of the United States.

Good Night, Witness Light

The "Witness Light" phrase which appears in the album title is taken from Robert Frost's poem "The Beech:"

Heart Station/Stay Gold

The song is much ethereal than Heart Station and the lyrics of the song were inspired by Robert Frost's poem Nothing Gold Can Stay and Stevie Wonder's song of the same name.

Inaugural address of John F. Kennedy

Robert Frost attended the inaugural ceremonies, and brought a handwritten poem titled Dedication meant for the President.

James Oppenheim

Notable writers who contributed to the magazine under his guidance included Sherwood Anderson, Van Wyck Brooks, Max Eastman, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Vachel Lindsay and Amy Lowell.

Joseph Banks: A Life

The biography covers Banks' life including his voyages to Newfoundland and the most famous episode, the three-year voyage of the HM Bark Endeavour, captained by James Cook.

Key West Heritage House Museum and Robert Frost Cottage

The Heritage House was the gathering place for some of the island's most famous celebrities, such as Robert Frost, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, Gloria Swanson and Sally Rand.

Lake Willoughby

In 1915, Robert Frost mentioned the lake in a poem, "A Servant to Servants,
"I see it's a fair, pretty sheet of water,
Our Willoughby!

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Over the years, she built friendships with fellow writers Ernest Hemingway whom she met in 1936 and traded praises with about their writing, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald whom she also met in 1936 when Fitzgerald was recuperating in the mountains in North Carolina, Robert Frost, and Margaret Mitchell.

Mark Dunn

Dunn seems to be particularly interested in constrained writing, with Ella Minnow Pea being a "progressively lipogrammatic" epistolary novel, and Ibid: A Life, comprised entirely from the endnotes of a fictional "lost" biography.

Milan Milišić

He wrote several volumes of poetry and translated, among others, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the poems of Robert Frost, and Ted Hughes into the Serbo-Croatian language.

Miles to Go Before I Sleep

Miles to Go Before I Sleep is a quotation from the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost.

Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove

Between songs, Parks talks to the audience for long periods, and even recites a poem by Robert Frost.

Necronomicon Press

Necronomicon Press published critical works by such pioneering Lovecraft scholars as Dirk W. Mosig, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Kenneth W. Faig and S. T. Joshi, including Joshi's biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996).

Norbert Smith – a Life

Mozart – Man of Music (1957), a historical costume drama.

Enfield would later play an affectionate parody of Mandela in his sketch show Harry & Paul.

Although the title hints at Rebel Without a Cause, this excerpt is more a parody of pre-war British films, with a strong moralising tone, and possibly with a touch of The Blue Lamp.

Poetry Society of America

Past members of the society have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens.

Robert C. Snyder

He did it with everything from Plato’s Republic to Frost's poetry, all with a charm and passion, a shout or a whisper.

Rotting Piñata

Track number five, "Miles", includes the last two lines of Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ("And Miles to go before I sleep... And Miles to go before I sleep...")

The Wild Colonial Boy

The walking skeleton in Robert Frost's poem the Witch of Coos is said to have been searching for way out of the house, because he wanted to sing his favorite song, "The Wild Colonial Boy", in the snow.


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