佛洛斯特(1874～1963年)

Frost, Robert (Lee)

美国诗人。生於旧金山，不久举家迁往新英格兰。在达特茅斯学院和哈佛大学辍学及经营农场和教学的困难时期後，他带领全家迁居英国。在伦敦出版了他的第一本诗集《少年的意志》（1913）和《波士顿以北》（1914）。第一次世界大战开始後，佛洛斯特返回新英格兰经营农场，并任教於达特茅斯学院等校。他采用通俗上口的语言、人们熟知的韵律、日常生活中常见的比喻和象徵手法，描写新英格兰地区宁静乡村的道德风尚。他的其他作品有：诗集《山间》（1916）、《新罕布夏》（1923，获普立兹奖）、《西去的溪流》（1928）、《诗集》（1930，获普立兹奖）、《又一片牧场》（1936，获普立兹奖）、《为树木作证》（1942，获普立兹奖）、《林间空地》（1962）；诗剧《理智的假面具》（1945）和《慈悲的假面具》（1947）。他是20世纪美国诗人中唯一同时广受大众和评论家们赞赏的诗人。

English version：

1874～1963年

Frost, Robert (Lee)

U.S. poet. He was born in San Francisco, but his family soon moved to New England. After stints at Dartmouth and Harvard colleges and a difficult period as a teacher and farmer, he moved to England and published his first collections, A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914). At the outbreak of war he returned to New England to farm and to pursue a distinguished teaching career at Amherst and Dartmouth colleges and elsewhere. He acutely observed the details of rural life and in his poetry endowed them with universal, even metaphysical, meaning, using colloquial language, familiar rhythms, and symbols taken from common life to express both the pastoral ideals and the dark complexities of New England life. His collections include Mountain Interval (1916), New Hampshire (1923; Pulitzer Prize), West-Running Brook (1928), Collected Poems (1930; Pulitzer Prize), A Further Range (1936; Pulitzer Prize), A Witness Tree (1942; Pulitzer Prize), Steeple Bush (1947), and In the Clearing (1962). He was unique among American poets of the 20th century in simultaneously achieving wide popularity and deep critical admiration.