Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, though he never earned a formal degree.
Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem, "My Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent.
In 1895, Frost married Eli nor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple moved to England in 1912, after their New Hampshire farm failed, and it was abroad that Frost met and was influenced by such contemporary British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work.
By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two full-length collections, A Boy's Will and North of Boston, and his reputation was established. By the nineteen-twenties, he was the most celebrated poet in America, and with each new book—including New Hampshire (1923), A Further Range (1936), Steeple Bush (1947), and In the Clearing (1962)—his fame and honors (including four Pulitzer Prizes) increased.
Though his work is principally associated with the life and landscape of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics who remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic movements and fashions of his time, Frost is anything but a merely regional or minor poet. The author of searching and often dark meditations on universal themes, he is a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological complexity of his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is infused with layers of ambiguity and irony.
In a 1970 review of The Poetry of Robert Frost, the poet Daniel Hoffman describes Frost's early work as "the Puritan ethic turned astonishingly lyrical and enabled to say out loud the sources of its own delight in the world," and comments on Frost's career as The American Bard: "He became a national celebrity, our nearly official Poet Laureate, and a great performer in the tradition of that earlier master of the literary vernacular, Mark Twain."
About Frost, President John F. Kennedy said, "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding."
Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper
Robert Frost
کتاب «ريشههاي فرهنگي ارتباط در ايران» نوشتهي مهدي محسنيان راد توسط فرهنگسراي رسانه با مشارکت نشر چاپار و پژوهشگاه اطلاعات و مدارک علمي ايران رونمايي ميشود. به گزارش ايسنا، در اين برنامه که از سلسله جلسات رونمايي کتاب با عنوان زرينقلم برگزار ميشود، کاظم معتمدنژاد، محمدمهدي فرقاني و مهدي محسنيان راد به سخنراني خواهند پرداخت. ناصر اسدي - رييس فرهنگسراي رسانه - با اشاره به برنامههاي پيشين اين فرهنگسرا در حوزه رونمايي کتاب گفت: تا کنون شش کتاب «تکنولوژيهاي نوين ارتباطي»، «موسيقي مردمپسند»، «رسانه شيعه»، «ارتباطات آييني»، «جريانشناسي عرفانهاي نوظهور» و «دايرةالمعارف راديو» را در جلسات زرينقلم مورد نقد و بررسي قرار دادهايم و ويژگي ممتاز اين جلسات، پرداختن به کتابهايي است که به علوم ارتباطات اجتماعي و حوزه رسانه ورود تخصصي داشتهاند. او حضور و مشارکت ناشران را در اين برنامهها قابل تقدير خواند و بيان كرد: در زرينقلم هفت، مسؤولان پژوهشگاه اطلاعات و مدارک علمي ايران و چند نفر از اساتيد و صاحبنظران نيز حضور خواهند داشت. مهدي محسنيان راد پس از انتشار کتاب سهجلدي «ايران در چهار کهکشان ارتباطي» (سير تحول تاريخ ارتباطات در ايران از آغاز تا امروز)، کتاب جديد خود را با عنوان «ريشههاي فرهنگي ارتباط در ايران» منتشر و روانه بازار کتاب كرده است. نشست رونمايي اين كتاب روز دوشنبه (چهارم خردادماه) ساعت 16 در سالن شهيد آويني فرهنگسراي رسانه واقع در ميدان ولي عصر(عج)، ابتداي بلوار کشاورز، جنب پايگاه انتقال خون برگزار خواهد شد.
