Twilight: a facsimile with an introduction by C. Waller Barrett/ by Robert Frost.

Title:

Twilight: a facsimile with an introduction by C. Waller Barrett/ by Robert Frost.

Author:

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963,

Call Number:

811 FV97ii

Publication Information:

Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1966.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages; 14.5 cm.

Series Title:

Kathleen Van Der Aue Robert Frost Collection.

Description:

This facsimilie of Robert Frost's first published book was printed in 1966 for the Clifton Waller Barrett Library for presentation to members of the Poetry society of Virginia who attended the meeting at the University of Virginia on April 16, 1966. It was printed in a numbered edition of 170 copies of which this is copy number 140. Robert Frost had Twilight published privately, it is thought by the American Printing House in Lawrence, MA. Two copies were printed with the intention of impressing Elinor White, later Mrs. Frost. Robert Frost had sold his first poem , My Butterfly, and hoped that he could convince Elinor to marry him, as his financial prospects were now improved. The book includes five poems, very personal to the couple, memorializing their shared experiences. The poems are: My Butterfly, An Unhistoric Spot, The Falls, Summering and Twilight. He journeyed to St. Lawrence University, where she was a student to suprise her. When the suprise was a spectacular failure he destroyed his copy and left in despair. He then immediately undertook a trip to Norfolk, VA and attempted to lose himself in the Dismal Swamp. These attempts failed and he had several adventures reccounted in part in his 1956 Christmas peom Kitty Hawk 1894. He returned home to eventually win her as his wife. The other copy survived and is now in the Clifton Waller Barret Library collection of the works of Robert Frost at the University of Virginia.

[This card is a part of the Holiday Greetings form Frost Scrapbook; 811 FV97.]

Subjects:

Poetry.

People:

Van Der Aue, Kathleen, , Barrett, Clifton Waller, 1901-1991,

Terms of Use:

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Credit Line:

Gift of Kathleen Van Der Aue in memory of her brother Harrison "Dinty" Moore; February 24, 2022;