Robert_Frost

Robert Frost (1941) Born - Robert Lee Frost March 26, 1874(1874-03-26) San Francisco, California, United States Died - January 29, 1963 (aged 88) Boston, Massachusetts, United States Occupation - Poet, Playwright Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California to journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie. Plays * 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). Pulitzer Prizes * 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes * 1931 for Collected Poems * 1937 for A Further Range * 1943 for A Witness Tree Poems * After Apple-Picking The Road Not Taken * Acquainted with the Night Nothing Gold Can Stay * The Death of the Hired Man Fire and Ice (1920) * Dedication Mending Wall * Once by the Pacific (1916) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningPoetry collections | * North of Boston (David Nutt, 1914; Holt, 1914) * Mending Wall * Mountain Interval (Holt, 1916) * West-Running Brook (Holt, 1928' 1929) * Collected Poems of Robert Frost (Holt, 1939; Longmans, Green, 1939) * Nothing Gold Can Stay Biography Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California to journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892Frost grew up in the city, and published his first poem in his high school's magazine. He attended Dartmouth College for two months, long enough to be accepted into the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Frost returned home to teach and to work at various jobs including helping his mother teach her class of unruly boys, delivering newspapers, and working in a factory as a light bulb filament changer. He did not enjoy these jobs, feeling his true calling as a poet. In 1894 he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy" (published in the Nov 8, 1894 edition of the New York Independent) for fifteen dollars. He got married to Elinor Miriam. Harvard's 1965 alumni directory indicates Frost received an honorary degree there. Though he never graduated from college, Frost received over 40 honorary degrees, including ones from Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge universities; and he was the only person to receive two honorary degrees from Dartmouth College. During his lifetime the Robert Frost Middle School in Fairfax, Virginia, and the main library of Amherst College were named after him.