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Came here to find out why a New England poet was named Robert Lee Frost, but there is no mention of the middle name in the article other than the fact of it. This article might be a good starting point: http://www.michaeljroueche.com/2013/03/a-yankee-poet-a-southern-general-a-civil-war-novel/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.36.194 ( talk) 21:28, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
A Yankee poet named for a Confederate icon? How can that be? Simple: We don’t get to name ourselves. Robert Lee Frost was born not in New England, but in San Francisco March 26, 1874 to a father and mother who had migrated from New England. Frost’s father, supposedly fed up with the Republican policies of New England, moved his family west. There, he edited a Democratic-Party-supporting newspaper and was a proud “Copperhead, a southern sympathizer and champion of States rights.”
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/25/specials/frost-obit.html "�Raymond Holden, poet and critic, pointed out in a "profile" in The New Yorker magazine that there was more than the ordinary amount of paradox in the personality and career of Frost. Essentially a New England poet in a day when there were few poets in that region, he was born in San Francisco; fundamentally a Yankee, he was the son of an ardent Democrat whose belief in the Confederacy led him to name his son Robert Lee; a farmer in New Hampshire, he preferred to sit on a fence and watch others work; a teacher, he despised the rigors of the educational process as practiced in the institutions where he taught.
Like many another Yankee individualists, Robert Frost was a rebel. So was his father, William Frost, who had run away from Amherst, Mass., to go West. His mother, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, emigrated to Philadelphia when she was a girl." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.36.194 ( talk) 22:25, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/25/specials/frost-thompson.html "Frost's disengagements from the people who helped him either at the farm, like Carl Burell, or in London, like F.S. Flint and Pound; his often secretive work on his poems and his subsequent hoarding of them so that it is still difficult to know whether certain works were written in these years or much later; his physical laziness; his frequent and still unexplained illnesses; his rages and resorts to physical violence matching that of his father (a kind of Heathcliffe who once beat him about the legs with a chain) -- there is ample evidence scattered through this volume that the story of Frost can only be penetrated by the most speculative and compassionate analysis." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.36.194 ( talk) 22:34, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/25/specials/frost-thompson2.html Damning stuff. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.36.194 ( talk) 22:58, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
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Came here to find out why a New England poet was named Robert Lee Frost, but there is no mention of the middle name in the article other than the fact of it. This article might be a good starting point: http://www.michaeljroueche.com/2013/03/a-yankee-poet-a-southern-general-a-civil-war-novel/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.36.194 ( talk) 21:28, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
A Yankee poet named for a Confederate icon? How can that be? Simple: We don’t get to name ourselves. Robert Lee Frost was born not in New England, but in San Francisco March 26, 1874 to a father and mother who had migrated from New England. Frost’s father, supposedly fed up with the Republican policies of New England, moved his family west. There, he edited a Democratic-Party-supporting newspaper and was a proud “Copperhead, a southern sympathizer and champion of States rights.”
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/25/specials/frost-obit.html "�Raymond Holden, poet and critic, pointed out in a "profile" in The New Yorker magazine that there was more than the ordinary amount of paradox in the personality and career of Frost. Essentially a New England poet in a day when there were few poets in that region, he was born in San Francisco; fundamentally a Yankee, he was the son of an ardent Democrat whose belief in the Confederacy led him to name his son Robert Lee; a farmer in New Hampshire, he preferred to sit on a fence and watch others work; a teacher, he despised the rigors of the educational process as practiced in the institutions where he taught.
Like many another Yankee individualists, Robert Frost was a rebel. So was his father, William Frost, who had run away from Amherst, Mass., to go West. His mother, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, emigrated to Philadelphia when she was a girl." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.36.194 ( talk) 22:25, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/25/specials/frost-thompson.html "Frost's disengagements from the people who helped him either at the farm, like Carl Burell, or in London, like F.S. Flint and Pound; his often secretive work on his poems and his subsequent hoarding of them so that it is still difficult to know whether certain works were written in these years or much later; his physical laziness; his frequent and still unexplained illnesses; his rages and resorts to physical violence matching that of his father (a kind of Heathcliffe who once beat him about the legs with a chain) -- there is ample evidence scattered through this volume that the story of Frost can only be penetrated by the most speculative and compassionate analysis." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.36.194 ( talk) 22:34, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/25/specials/frost-thompson2.html Damning stuff. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.36.194 ( talk) 22:58, 29 March 2021 (UTC)