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Life

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He spent the first 12 years of his life there, until his father, William Prescott Frost Jr., died of tuberculosis. Following his father's passing, Frost moved with his mother and sister Jeanie to the town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. They moved in with his grandparents, and Frost attended Lawrence High School. After his high school graduation in 1892, Frost attended Dartmouth University for several months, returning home to work a slew of unfulfilling jobs. In 1894, he had his first poem, "My Butterfly: an Elegy," published in The Independent, a weekly literary journal based in New York City. With this success, Frost proposed to Elinor, who was attending St. Lawrence University. She turned him down because she first wanted to finish school. Frost then decided to leave on a trip to Virginia, and when he returned, he proposed again. By then, Elinor had graduated from college, and she accepted. They married on December 19, 1895, and had their first child, Elliot, in 1896. Beginning of 1897, Frost attended Harvard University, but had to drop out after two years due to health concerns. He returned to Lawrence to join his wife, who was now pregnant with their second child, Lesley, who suffered from mental illness. In 1900, Frost moved with his wife and children to a farm in New Hampshire—property that Frost's grandfather had purchased for them—and they attempted to make a life on it for the next 12 years. Though it was a fruitful time for Frost's writing, it was a difficult period in his personal life. Elinor gave birth to four more children, Carol (1902); Irma (1903), who later developed mental illness; Marjorie (1905); and Elinor (1907), and two of the Frost children died. Elliot died of cholera in 1900, and Elinor died of complications from birth just weeks after she was born. Additionally, during that time, Frost and Elinor tried several endeavors, including poultry farming, all of which were fairly unsuccessful. In 1916, Frost and Elinor settled down on a farm that they purchased in Franconia, New Hampshire. There, Frost began a long career as a teacher at several colleges, reciting poetry to crowds and writing all the while. He taught at Dartmouth and the University of Michigan at various times, but his longest stint was at Amherst College, where he taught on and off for significant periods for more than 45 years, and where the main library is now named in his honor. Frost received more than 40 honorary degrees during his lifetime. In 1924, he received his first of four Pulitzer Prizes for his book New Hampshire. He would subsequently win his other Pulitzers for Collected Poems (1931), Further Range (1937) and A Witness Tree (1943).

Accomplishments/ Public Recognition

Despite being off to a slow start and being unknown for the first 40 years of his career. At the age of 38 Frost had his first book of poems, A Boy's Will published in England. A year later, Frost published a second book of poems called North of Boston. On this amazing lucky streak, Robert Frost met the famous American poet Ezra Pound and Anglo-Welsh poet Edward Thomas. Fortunate enough cross paths with these great poets, Robert Frost could have never anticipated the great breakthrough these two famous men would aid him with. All of these exciting beginnings took place in England. Robert Frost's achievements in England built his reputation in America. This gave Frost the ultimate advantage, to publish more books of poetry. Henry Holt became Frost's publisher in 1915, publishing Mountain Interval in 1916. Thanks to Holt for giving Frost a chance, publishers who had turned down Frost before when he submitted his work were now calling him.

Frost moved to New Hampshire with his wife in 1918. There, they lived on a farm in Franconia. It was here that Frost began his long career as a professor at many colleges. Robert Frost, a man who once lived in the shadows and unnoticed was now reciting his poetry to roaring crowds. He taught at Dartmouth College, University of Michigan, Middlebury College and Amherst College. At Amherst College, Frost taught on and off again for a period of 45 years. Today, their main library is named after him. Frost was later an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, which merged to the San Francisco Examiner.



In 1924, Robert Frost won his first of four Pulitzer Prizes for his book New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes. The second Pulitzer Prize he won was for Collected Poems, the third Pulitzer Prize was for A Further Range and the fourth Pulitzer Prize he won for A Witness Tree. Frost won over 40 honorary degrees throughout his lifetime. He received honorary degrees from Harvard University, Bates College, Oxford University, Cambridge University and Dartmouth College. Robert Frost was the first person to ever receive two honorary degrees from Dartmouth College. Among those achievements, he also received an abundance of public recognition. Frost was a special guest at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration. At the inauguration on January 20th, 1961 Frost performed a reading of his poetry. Robert Frost, once an unknown name became a well known literary legacy.

Work

Poetry Collections (source 5)

•	A Boy's Will (David Nutt 1913;Holt, 1915) •	North of Boston (David Nutt, 1914; Holt, 1914) •	"Birches" •	"Mending Wall" •	Mountain Interval (Holt, 1916) •	"The Road Not Taken" •	Selected Poems (Holt, 1923) •	New Hampshire (Holt, 1923; Grant Richards, 1924) •	Several Short Poems (Holt, 1924)[1] •	Selected Poems (Holt, 1928) •	West-Running Brook (Holt, 1928? 1929) •	The Lovely Shall Be Choosers, The Poetry Quartos, printed and illustrated by Paul Johnston (Random House, 1929) •	Collected Poems of Robert Frost (Holt, 1930; Longmans, Green, 1930) •	The Lone Striker (Knopf, 1933) •	Selected Poems: Third Edition (Holt, 1934) •	Three Poems (Baker Library, Dartmouth College, 1935) •	The Gold Hesperidee (Bibliophile Press, 1935) •	From Snow to Snow (Holt, 1936) •	A Further Range (Holt, 1936; Cape, 1937) •	Collected Poems of Robert Frost (Holt, 1939; Longmans, Green, 1939) •	A Witness Tree (Holt, 1942; Cape, 1943) •	"The Silken Tent" •	Come In, and Other Poems (1943) •	Steeple Bush (Holt, 1947) •	Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949 (Holt, 1949; Cape, 1951) •	Hard Not To Be King (House of Books, 1951) •	Aforesaid (Holt, 1954) •	A Remembrance Collection of New Poems (Holt, 1959) •	You Come Too (Holt, 1959; Bodley Head, 1964) •	In the Clearing (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1962) •	The Poetry of Robert Frost (New York, 1969) •	A Further Range (published as Further Range in 1926, as New Poems by Holt, 1936; Cape, 1937) •	What Fifty Said •	Fire And Ice •	A Drumlin Woodchuck

Poems (source 6)

A Boy's Will

•	Mowing •	My November Guest •	Love and A Question •	Reluctance •	The Vantage Point

North of Boston

•	Mending Wall •	The Death of the Hired Man •	Home Burial •	The Mountain •	After Apple-Picking •	The Code •	Blueberries •	The Fear •	Hundred Collars •	The Black Cottage •	A Servant to Servants •	The Wood-Pile •	The House-Keeper

Mountain Interval

•	Birches •	The Road Not Taken •	An Old Man's Winter Night •	Meeting and Passing •	The Oven Bird •	Out, Out- •	The Telephone •	Brown's Descent •	Putting in the Seed •	Range-Finding •	The Sound of the Trees •	The Hill Wife

New Hampshire

•	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening •	Fire and Ice •	The Aim Was Song[1] •	The need of Being Versed in Country Things •	I Will Sing You One O •	Paul's Wife •	To Earthward •	For Once, Then, Something •	The Onset •	Two Look at Two •	Nothing Gold Can Stay •	New Hampshire •	The Axe-Helve •	The Grind-Stone •	The Witch of Coos •	The Pauper Witch of Grafton •	A Star In A Stone Boat •	The Star Splitter •	In A Disused Graveyard •	Fragmentary Blue

West-Running Brook

•	Acquainted with the Night •	Tree at my Window •	Once by the Pacific •	Bereft •	West-Running Brook •	Sand Dunes •	Spring Pools •	Sitting By A Bush In Broad Sunlight •	On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations •	The Last Mowing

A Further Range

•	Afterflakes •	Two Tramps in Mud Time •	Neither Out Far Nor in Deep •	Departmental •	Desert Places •	A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury •	Provide, Provide •	At Woodward’s Gardens •	The Vindictives •	A Record Stride

A Witness Tree

•	The Gift Outright •	The Most of It •	Come In •	All Revelation •	A Considerable Speck •	The Silken Tent •	Happiness Makes Up In Height For What It Lacks In Length •	The Subverted Flower •	The Lesson for Today •	The Discovery of the Madeiras •	Of the Stones of the Place

Steeple Bush

•	Directive •	Skeptic •	Etherealizing •	Why Wait for Science

An Afterward

•	The Pasture •	Wild Grapes

Plays (source 5)

•	A Way Out: A One Act Play (Harbor Press, 1929). •	The Cow's in the Corn: A One Act Irish Play in Rhyme (Slide Mountain Press, 1929). •	A Masque of Reason (Holt, 1945). •	A Masque of Mercy (Holt, 1947).

Prose books (source 5)

•	The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963; Cape, 1964). •	Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship, by Margaret Bartlett Anderson (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963). •	Selected Letters of Robert Frost (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964). •	Interviews with Robert Frost (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966; Cape, 1967). •	Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost (State University of New York Press, 1972). •	Robert Frost and Sidney Cox: Forty Years of Friendship (University Press of New England, 1981). •	The Notebooks of Robert Frost, edited by Robert Faggen (Harvard University Press, January 2007). Letters (source 5)

•	The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1, 1886–1921, edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, and Robert Faggen (Harvard University Press; 2014); 811 pages; first volume of the scholarly edition of the poet's correspondence, including many previously unpublished letters.

Omnibus volumes (source 5)

•	Collected Poems, Prose and Plays (Richard Poirier, ed.) (Library of America, 1995) ISBN 978-1-883011-06-2.

Spoken word (source 5)

•	Robert Frost Reads His Poetry, Caedmon Records, 1957, TC1060

Resources (source)

(1) https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/robert-frost

(2) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-frost

(3) "Robert Frost." Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2014. Web. 24 May 2014.

(4) Pritchard, William H. (2000). "Frost's Life and Career" (http). Retrieved May 24, 2014

(5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost

(6) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poems_by_Robert_Frost