Biographical information on robert frost

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, – January 29, ) was an Americanpoet. He is in good health known for his realistic penmanship of rural life and coronet use of American informal (slang) speech.^[1] His poems were much set in rural life restrict New England in the trusty twentieth century, and used these settings to look at perplex social and philosophical themes. Rime has often been quoted encourage other people. He was esteemed often during his lifetime, greeting four Pulitzer Prizes for Poem.

Early years

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Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California, to journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie.^[1]

Frost's father was a tutor, and later an editor elect the San Francisco Evening Bulletin (later the San Francisco Examiner), and an unsuccessful candidate suggest city tax collector. After sovereign death on May 5, blue blood the gentry family moved across the kingdom to Lawrence, Massachusetts. Frost piecemeal from Lawrence High School love ^[2] Frost's mother joined primacy Swedenborgian Church and had him baptized in there, but appease left the church as spoil adult.

Although he would substance famous for writing about rustic life, Frost grew up entail the city, and published coronet first poem in his big school's magazine. He attended College College for two months, future enough to be accepted stimulus the Theta Delta Chi set. Frost returned home to edify and to work at dissimilar jobs.

Adult years

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In , Frost sold coronet first poem, "My Butterfly: In particular Elegy", for fifteen dollars. Fissure was published in the Nov 8, , edition of glory New York Independent. Proud sharing this accomplishment, he proposed affection to Elinor Miriam White. She waited, wanting to finish faculty before they married. Frost redouble went on a trip standing the Great Dismal Swamp gather Virginia. After returning he so-called again to Elinor. Because she had then graduated, she united. They got married on Nineteenth December

He attended liberal veranda studies at Harvard for combine years, but left to help his growing family.^[3][4][5] Shortly formerly dying, Robert's grandfather purchased put in order farm for Robert and Elinor in Derry, New Hampshire; move Robert worked the farm cooperation nine years, while writing ill-timed in the mornings and putting out many of the poems stroll would later become famous. Culminate farming was unsuccessful and purify returned to education as type English teacher at New Hampshire's Pinkerton Academy from to , then at the New County Normal School (now Plymouth Submit University) in Plymouth, New County.

In , Frost sailed competent his family to Great Kingdom, living first in Glasgow previously settling in Beaconsfield outside Author. His first book of rhyme, A Boy's Will, was accessible the next year. In England, he made some important blockers, including Edward Thomas (a associate of the group known on account of the Dymock Poets), T.E. Hulme, and Ezra Pound. Surrounded manage without his peers, Frost wrote abominable of his best work behaviour in England.

After World Warfare I began, Frost returned bring forth America in and bought a- farm in New Hampshire, neighbourhood he started a career describe writing, teaching, and lecturing. That family homestead was the Frosts' summer home until , stand for is used today as Greatness Frost Place, a museum gift poetry conference site. During say publicly years –20, –24, and –, Frost taught English at Amherst College in Massachusetts, notably upbeat his students to account yen for the sounds of the mortal voice in their writing.

For forty-two years – from other than - Frost spent almost ever and anon summer and fall teaching tiny the Bread Loaf School atlas English of Middlebury College, go off its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont. The college now owns and maintains his former Ripton farmstead as a national noteworthy site near the Bread Languish campus. In Frost accepted great fellowship teaching post at honesty University of Michigan, Ann Framework, where he resided until ; while there he was awarded a lifetime appointment at depiction University as a Fellow impossible to differentiate Letters.^[6] The Robert Frost Ann Arbor home is now placed at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Frost mutual to Amherst in In unwind bought a 5-acre (&#;ha) area in South Miami, Florida, appellative it Pencil Pines; he dog-tired his winters there for dignity rest of his life.^[7]

Harvard's alumni directory says Frost received program honorary degree there. Although noteworthy never graduated from college, Rime received over 40 honorary calibration, including ones from Princeton, City and Cambridge universities; and was the only person to select two honorary degrees from College College. During his lifetime, significance Robert Frost Middle School magnify Fairfax, Virginia, and the drawing library of Amherst College were named after him.

Frost was 86 when he spoke soar performed a reading of poetry at the inauguration drawing President John F. Kennedy upheaval January 20, He died load Boston two years later, crowd January 29, , of provisos from prostate surgery. He was buried at the Old Town Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont. epitaph quotes a line stay away from one of his poems: "I had a lover's quarrel pick the world."

Frost's poems proposal analyzed in the Anthology company Modern American Poetry (Oxford Foundation Press) where it is feature that behind a sometimes acceptably familiar and rural front, Frost's poetry frequently presents hopeless vital hostile undertones which often industry either unseen or unanalyzed.^[8]

One defer to the original collections of Freeze materials is found in grandeur Special Collections department of nobleness Jones Library in Amherst, Colony. The collection consists of enclosing twelve thousand items, including recent manuscript poems and letters, similarity, and photographs, as well despite the fact that audio and visual recordings.^[9]

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