April 12, 2024
Franklin Library: Robert Frost: Poems: New England
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Franklin Library: Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken: Mending Wall: Birches: After Apple Picking: The Gift Outright Franklin Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of "The Poetry of Robert Frost," a Limited edition, Edited by Edward Connery Lathem, Illustrated by Herbert Tauss, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN series, published in 1979. Bound in a Most Handsome brown Moroccan cowhide, the book has French moire silk endleaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, 22 kt. gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Robert Frost, who lived from 1874-1963, was born in SAN FRANCISCO but after his father's death, the Frost family moved to SALEM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, in 1885. Frost courted and married his high school sweetheart, Elinor Miriam White; they were also co-valedictorians! Frost entered DARTMOUTH COLLEGE but he dropped out of college, farmed and wrote poetry. Frost later attended HARVARD COLLEGE but again he left without a degree. Until 1911, Frost was content as father, farmer, sometime teacher, and part-time poet. In 1912, Frost moved his family to England w he published A BOY'S WILL and NORTH OF BOSTON. In 1916, Frost accepted a teaching position at AMHERST COLLEGE, later teaching at University of MICHIGAN and at HARVARD. Frost is the 'poets' poet' and was awarded honorary doctorates by OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE, YALE---17
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