A little bit of Paradis

Paradis | October 17, 2009

A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.

Category: Famous Poetry |
Tags: Frost

Paradis | October 14, 2009

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

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Tags: Frost

Paradis | October 12, 2009

Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco on the 26th March 1874, and died in Boston on the 29th January 1963, he was one of America’s leading 20th century poets and won the Pulitzer Prize four times.

After his father’s death when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. He taught school and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold “My Butterfly: An Elegy” to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor White. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems and operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire and supplemented his income by teaching at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy.

At the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. His efforts to establish himself and his work were almost immediately successful. A Boy’s Will was accepted by a London publisher. His reputation as a major poet is secure.

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Category: Biographies |
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