Frequently honored during his lifetime, Frost is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution". Appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1958, he also received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960, and in 1961 was named poet laureate of Vermont. Randall Jarrell wrote: "Robert Frost, along with Stevens and Eliot, seems to me the greatest of the American poets of this century. Frost's virtues are extraordinary. No other living poet has written so well about the actions of ordinary men; his wonderful dramatic monologues or dramatic scenes come out of a knowledge of people that few poets have had, and they are written in a verse that uses, sometimes with absolute mastery, the rhythms of actual speech". In his 1939 essay "The Figure a Poem Makes", Frost explains his poetics:No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew...[Poetry] must be a revelation, or a series of revelations, for the poet as for the reader. For it to be that there must have been the greatest freedom of the material to move about in it and to establish relations in it regardless of time and space, previous relation, and everything but affinity.
主な事実
- Born: March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California, US
- 没年: 1963
- 分野: Literature
遺産と影響
The influence of Robert Frost extends far beyond his own lifetime. He fundamentally shaped literature and the written word, and his written works and literary innovations remain foundational to this day.
Though he passed away in 1963, his ideas continue to be studied, debated, and built upon by scholars and practitioners worldwide.
Robert FrostはUnited Statesが生んだ最も称賛される頭脳の一人であり続け、地域の豊かな知的遺産を物語っている。
United Statesの著名な天才
United Statesは数多くの傑出した頭脳を輩出してきた。Robert Frostと並んで:
Literatureの他の優れた頭脳を発見
探索 Literature Geniuses関連記事
もっと見る
Robert Frostの完全なプロフィールを読む
Robert Frostのプロフィールを見る →