Robert Frost
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Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet? March 21, 2025
Though he is most often associated with New England, Robert Frost (1874–1963) was born in San Francisco. He dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, taught school like his mother did before him, and became a farmer, the sleeping-in kind, since he w...
Robert Frost's Accidental Late Start April 25, 2024
Robert Frost first joined literary society when he gatecrashed a bookshop party in the winter of 1913. Frost had no invitation. He was a poet, but he had published no book. He was in London, the city of poets, but he was a mountain farmer from Vermon...
William H. Pritchard and the Twilight of Literary Criticism April 17, 2024
Ear Training is a retrospective collection of writings by nonagenarian William H. Pritchard, the Henry Clay Folger Professor of English, Emeritus, at Amherst College. The author is an Amherst man through and through. He took the A. B. there in 1953 a...
