You come too
Subtitle: my journey with Robert Frost
By: Lesley Lee Francis
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780813937458
Subjects: History and criticism; Family; Biography; American poetry; American Poets
Other titles: My journey with Robert Frost
Description: "Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live 'a life that goes rather poetically.' The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In [this book], Frost's granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines ... personal memories and ... research to create a portrait of Frost and the women, including herself, whose lives he touched"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Before 1938. The Derry years ; Robert Frost and the child ; The English years ; Franconia, New Hampshire ; The stone house and the gully ; Robert Frost and women ; Elinor Miriam White Frost ; Lesley Frost; title: After 1938. Gainesville and the death of Elinor Frost ; Kathleen Morrison and the Homer Noble Farm ; Mounting family tragedies ; Robert Frost's religious views ; The war years in Washington, D.C. ; On assignment in Spain ; Lesley Lee: education and employment ; Frost studies and Lawrance Thompson ; Robert Frost and Harvard ; Robert Frost's interest in archaeology, Indians, and Pre-Columbian artifacts ; Robert and Lesley Frost: the lure of art; title: Robert Frost: the Spainsh connection ; Honorary degrees in England and Ireland ; Robert Frost's eighty-fifth birthday and Lionel Trilling ; Robert Frost and politics ; The death of Robert Frost ; "Education by Poetry": Escuela de la Tahona.