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You Come Too: My Journey with Robert Frost
Lesley Lee Francis &
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Description for You Come Too: My Journey with Robert Frost
Hardcover. "A reflection on family and poetry"--Jacket. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BM; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 536.
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 You Come Too, Frost’s granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines priceless personal memories and rigorous research to create a portrait of Frost and the women, including herself, whose lives he touched.
Francis provides a vivid picture of Frost the family man, revealing him to be intensely engaged rather than the aloof artist that is commonly portrayed. She shares with us the devastation Frost and Elinor ... Read more
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 You Come Too, Frost’s granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines priceless personal memories and rigorous research to create a portrait of Frost and the women, including herself, whose lives he touched.
Francis provides a vivid picture of Frost the family man, revealing him to be intensely engaged rather than the aloof artist that is commonly portrayed. She shares with us the devastation Frost and Elinor ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813937458
SKU
V9780813937458
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About Lesley Lee Francis &
Lesley Lee Francis is a retired professor of Spanish language, literature, and history. The author of Robert Frost: An Adventure in Poetry, 1900–1918 and organizer of the annual Frost Symposium, she has written and lectured extensively on her grandfather.
Reviews for You Come Too: My Journey with Robert Frost
“The journey that Lesley Lee Francis took with her grandfather (literally and figuratively) was deeply personal. Those in love with the poetry of Robert Frost will find themselves enchanted, illumined, and grateful to the author for undertaking this journey.” —From Jay Parini’s foreword