Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was one of the most famous and honourable American poets. His work frequently drew inspiration from rural life in New England, using the setting to explore complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was highly honoured during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes. Frost was born in San Fransisco, California and lived there until he was eleven. After his father passed away he moved to Massachusetts with his mother and sister. He attended Dartmouth College in 1892, for just less than a semester. In 1894 he sold his first poem, My Butterfly, to The Independent for fifteen dollars. Proud of this accomplishment he asked Elinor Miriam White to marry him but she refused, wanting to finish school before they married. After some time when Elinor had graduated he asked her again and they got married in December 1895.
They taught school together until 1897. They taught school together until 1897. Frost then entered Harvard University for two years but dropped out due to health issues and because his wife was expecting their first child. He later moved to New Hampshire and stayed there for nine years and wrote many of the poems that would make up his first works. In 1912, Frost sailed with his family to Glasgow, and later settled in Beaconsfield, outside London.His first book of poetry, A Boy's Will, was published the next year. In England he made some crucial contacts including Edward Thomas (a member of the group known as the Dymock poets), T. E. Hulme, and Ezra Pound, who was the first American to write a positive review of Frost's work. Frost wrote some of the best pieces of his work while living in England.
Frost returned to America in 1915, bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire and launched a career of writing, teaching and lecturing. From 1916 to 1938, he was an English professor at Amherst College. Beginning in 1921, and for the next 42 years , Frost spent his summers teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College in Ripton, Vermont. Over the course of his career, Frost also became known for poems involving dramas or an interplay of voices, such as Death of the Hired Man. His work was highly popular in his lifetime and remains so.
Among his best-known shorter poems are:
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was one of the most famous and honourable American poets. His work frequently drew inspiration from rural life in New England, using the setting to explore complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was highly honoured during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes. Frost was born in San Fransisco, California and lived there until he was eleven. After his father passed away he moved to Massachusetts with his mother and sister. He attended Dartmouth College in 1892, for just less than a semester. In 1894 he sold his first poem, My Butterfly, to The Independent for fifteen dollars. Proud of this accomplishment he asked Elinor Miriam White to marry him but she refused, wanting to finish school before they married. After some time when Elinor had graduated he asked her again and they got married in December 1895.
They taught school together until 1897. They taught school together until 1897. Frost then entered Harvard University for two years but dropped out due to health issues and because his wife was expecting their first child. He later moved to New Hampshire and stayed there for nine years and wrote many of the poems that would make up his first works. In 1912, Frost sailed with his family to Glasgow, and later settled in Beaconsfield, outside London.His first book of poetry, A Boy's Will, was published the next year. In England he made some crucial contacts including Edward Thomas (a member of the group known as the Dymock poets), T. E. Hulme, and Ezra Pound, who was the first American to write a positive review of Frost's work. Frost wrote some of the best pieces of his work while living in England.
Frost returned to America in 1915, bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire and launched a career of writing, teaching and lecturing. From 1916 to 1938, he was an English professor at Amherst College. Beginning in 1921, and for the next 42 years , Frost spent his summers teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College in Ripton, Vermont. Over the course of his career, Frost also became known for poems involving dramas or an interplay of voices, such as Death of the Hired Man. His work was highly popular in his lifetime and remains so.
Among his best-known shorter poems are:
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Mending Wall
- Nothing Gold Can Stay
- Birches
- After Apple Picking
- The Pasture
- Fire and Ice
- The Road Not Taken
- Directive.