Robert Francis (poet)
Date: Friday, January 26 @ 19:51:28 EST
Topic: Famous Poets
Robert Francis (1901-1987) was an American poet who lived much of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Francis won the Shelley Memorial Award in 1939. One of his poetic
mentors was Robert Frost, and indeed Francis's first volume of poems, Stand Here
With Me (1936), displays a poetic voice eerily reminiscent of Frost's own. In
later volumes, especially The Face Against the Glass (1950) and The Orb Weaver
(1960), Francis found a voice distinctively his own, relaxed in meter and
characterized by puns, word-plays, slant rhymes, and repetitions of key words.
Aside from one long narrative poem in Frostian blank verse, Francis's poetry
consists largely of concise lyrics, somewhat limited in thematic range but
intensely crafted and deeply personal. This American poet died in July of 1987.
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