Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.
126: Robert Frost 1874–1963 == Citations == == General sources == "Vandalized Frost house drew a crowd".
After his death on May 5, 1885, the family moved across the country to Lawrence, Massachusetts, under the patronage of Robert's grandfather William Frost, Sr., who was an overseer at a New England mill.
In 1885 when he was 11, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family with just eight dollars.
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1, 1886–1920, edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, and Robert Faggen.
Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892.
He did not enjoy these jobs, feeling his true calling was poetry. ===Adult years=== In 1894, he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly.
An Elegy" (published in the November 8, 1894, edition of the New York Independent) for $15 ($ today).
Having graduated, she agreed, and they were married at Lawrence, Massachusetts on December 19, 1895. Frost attended Harvard University from 1897 to 1899, but he left voluntarily due to illness.
Having graduated, she agreed, and they were married at Lawrence, Massachusetts on December 19, 1895. Frost attended Harvard University from 1897 to 1899, but he left voluntarily due to illness.
Having graduated, she agreed, and they were married at Lawrence, Massachusetts on December 19, 1895. Frost attended Harvard University from 1897 to 1899, but he left voluntarily due to illness.
Frost's mother died of cancer in 1900.
Ultimately his farming proved unsuccessful and he returned to the field of education as an English teacher at New Hampshire's Pinkerton Academy from 1906 to 1911, then at the New Hampshire Normal School (now Plymouth State University) in Plymouth, New Hampshire. In 1912, Frost sailed with his family to Great Britain, settling first in Beaconsfield, a small town outside London.
Frost's wife, Elinor, also experienced bouts of depression. Elinor and Robert Frost had six children: son Elliot (1896–1900, died of cholera); daughter Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899–1983); son Carol (1902–1940, committed suicide); daughter Irma (1903–1967); daughter Marjorie (1905–1934, died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth); and daughter Elinor Bettina (died just one day after her birth in 1907).
Ultimately his farming proved unsuccessful and he returned to the field of education as an English teacher at New Hampshire's Pinkerton Academy from 1906 to 1911, then at the New Hampshire Normal School (now Plymouth State University) in Plymouth, New Hampshire. In 1912, Frost sailed with his family to Great Britain, settling first in Beaconsfield, a small town outside London.
Ultimately his farming proved unsuccessful and he returned to the field of education as an English teacher at New Hampshire's Pinkerton Academy from 1906 to 1911, then at the New Hampshire Normal School (now Plymouth State University) in Plymouth, New Hampshire. In 1912, Frost sailed with his family to Great Britain, settling first in Beaconsfield, a small town outside London.
Frost met or befriended many contemporary poets in England, especially after his first two poetry volumes were published in London in 1913 (A Boy's Will) and 1914 (North of Boston). In 1915, during World War I, Frost returned to America, where Holt's American edition of A Boy's Will had recently been published, and bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he launched a career of writing, teaching, and lecturing.
Frost met or befriended many contemporary poets in England, especially after his first two poetry volumes were published in London in 1913 (A Boy's Will) and 1914 (North of Boston). In 1915, during World War I, Frost returned to America, where Holt's American edition of A Boy's Will had recently been published, and bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he launched a career of writing, teaching, and lecturing.
London: David Nutt (New York: Holt, 1914) * "After Apple-Picking" * "The Death of the Hired Man" * "Mending Wall" 1916.
Frost met or befriended many contemporary poets in England, especially after his first two poetry volumes were published in London in 1913 (A Boy's Will) and 1914 (North of Boston). In 1915, during World War I, Frost returned to America, where Holt's American edition of A Boy's Will had recently been published, and bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he launched a career of writing, teaching, and lecturing.
London: David Nutt (New York: Holt, 1915) 1914.
He was made an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard in 1916.
During the years 1917–20, 1923–25, and, on a more informal basis, 1926–1938, Frost taught English at Amherst College in Massachusetts, notably encouraging his students to account for the myriad sounds and intonations of the spoken English language in their writing.
Throughout the 1920s, Frost also lived in his colonial era home in Shaftsbury, Vermont.
In 1920, he had to commit his younger sister Jeanie to a mental hospital, where she died nine years later.
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2, 1920–1928, edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, Robert Bernard Hass, and Henry Atmore.
He would win additional Pulitzers for Collected Poems in 1931, A Further Range in 1937, and A Witness Tree in 1943. For forty-two years – from 1921 to 1962 – Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont.
In 1921, Frost accepted a fellowship teaching post at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he resided until 1927 when he returned to teach at Amherst.
During the years 1917–20, 1923–25, and, on a more informal basis, 1926–1938, Frost taught English at Amherst College in Massachusetts, notably encouraging his students to account for the myriad sounds and intonations of the spoken English language in their writing.
He called his colloquial approach to language "the sound of sense." In 1924, he won the first of four Pulitzer Prizes for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.
New York: Holt (London: Grant Richards, 1924) * "Fire and Ice" * "Nothing Gold Can Stay" * "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" 1924.
During the years 1917–20, 1923–25, and, on a more informal basis, 1926–1938, Frost taught English at Amherst College in Massachusetts, notably encouraging his students to account for the myriad sounds and intonations of the spoken English language in their writing.
In 1921, Frost accepted a fellowship teaching post at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he resided until 1927 when he returned to teach at Amherst.
New York: Holt (UK: Longmans Green, 1930) 1933.
He would win additional Pulitzers for Collected Poems in 1931, A Further Range in 1937, and A Witness Tree in 1943. For forty-two years – from 1921 to 1962 – Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont.
The home opened as the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in 2002 and was given to Bennington College in 2017. In 1934, Frost began to spend winter months in Florida.
In March 1935, he gave a talk at the University of Miami.
He would win additional Pulitzers for Collected Poems in 1931, A Further Range in 1937, and A Witness Tree in 1943. For forty-two years – from 1921 to 1962 – Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont.
Frost's wife, who had heart problems throughout her life, developed breast cancer in 1937, and died of [failure] in 1938. ==Work== ===Style and critical response=== The poet and critic Randall Jarrell often praised Frost's poetry and wrote "Robert Frost, along with Stevens and Eliot, seems to me the greatest of the American poets of this century.
New York: Holt (Cape, 1937) 1939.
This family homestead served as the Frosts' summer home until 1938.
Frost's wife, who had heart problems throughout her life, developed breast cancer in 1937, and died of [failure] in 1938. ==Work== ===Style and critical response=== The poet and critic Randall Jarrell often praised Frost's poetry and wrote "Robert Frost, along with Stevens and Eliot, seems to me the greatest of the American poets of this century.
New York: Holt (UK: Longmans, Green, 1939) 1942.
In 1940, he bought a plot in South Miami, Florida, naming it Pencil Pines; he spent his winters there for the rest of his life.
He would win additional Pulitzers for Collected Poems in 1931, A Further Range in 1937, and A Witness Tree in 1943. For forty-two years – from 1921 to 1962 – Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont.
New York: Holt (Cape, 1943) * "The Gift Outright" * "A Question" * "The Silken Tent" 1943.
Mental illness apparently ran in Frost's family, as both he and his mother suffered from depression, and his daughter Irma was committed to a mental hospital in 1947.
New York: Holt (Cape, 1951) 1951.
He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution." He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works.
Frost School in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the main library of Amherst College were named after him. In 1960, Frost was awarded a United States Congressional Gold Medal, "In recognition of his poetry, which has enriched the culture of the United States and the philosophy of the world," which was finally bestowed by President Kennedy in March 1962.
On July 22, 1961, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont. ==Biography== ===Early years=== Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California, to journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie.
Kennedy on January 20, 1961.
He would win additional Pulitzers for Collected Poems in 1931, A Further Range in 1937, and A Witness Tree in 1943. For forty-two years – from 1921 to 1962 – Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont.
Frost School in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the main library of Amherst College were named after him. In 1960, Frost was awarded a United States Congressional Gold Medal, "In recognition of his poetry, which has enriched the culture of the United States and the philosophy of the world," which was finally bestowed by President Kennedy in March 1962.
Also in 1962, he was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal for outstanding contribution to the arts by the MacDowell Colony. Frost was 86 when he read at the inauguration of John F.
Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.
at the time of his death in 1963 was generally considered to be a New England folkie ...
New York: Holt (UK: Bodley Head, 1964) 1962.
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; Cape, 1964). 1963.
In her memoir about Frost's time in Florida, Helen Muir writes, "Frost had called his five acres Pencil Pines because he said he had never made a penny from anything that did not involve the use of a pencil." His properties also included a house on Brewster Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard's 1965 alumni directory indicates Frost received an [degree] there.
Since Frost was one of the President's favorite poets, Davis concluded his report with a passage from "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", but was overcome with emotion as he signed off. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964), the first Prime Minister of India, had kept a book of Robert Frost's close to him towards his later years, even at his bedside table as he lay dying. The poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is featured in both the 1967 novel The Outsiders by S.
Interviews with Robert Frost (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; Cape, 1967). 1995.
In 1977, the third volume of Lawrance Thompson's biography suggested that Frost was a much nastier piece of work than anyone had imagined; a few years later, thanks to the reappraisal of critics like William H.
Hinton and the 1983 film adaptation, first recited aloud by the character Ponyboy to his friend Johnny.
Martin's fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. Nothing Gold Can Stay is the name of the debut studio album by American pop-punk band New Found Glory, released on October 19, 1999. At the funeral of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, on October 3, 2000, his eldest son Justin rephrased the last stanza of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in his eulogy: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
Martin's fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. Nothing Gold Can Stay is the name of the debut studio album by American pop-punk band New Found Glory, released on October 19, 1999. At the funeral of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, on October 3, 2000, his eldest son Justin rephrased the last stanza of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in his eulogy: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
The home opened as the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in 2002 and was given to Bennington College in 2017. In 1934, Frost began to spend winter months in Florida.
He has kept his promises and earned his sleep." A Garfield comic strip published on October 20, 2002 originally featured the titular character reciting "Nothing Gold Can Stay".
However, this was replaced in book collections and online edition, likely due to the poem being still under copyright when the comic ran (the poem has since lapsed into public domain, in 2019). The poem "Fire and Ice" is the epigraph of Stephenie Meyers' 2007 book, Eclipse, of the Twilight Saga.
Burlington Free Press, January 8, 2008. Robert Frost (1995).
Del Rey also previously used this line in her 2015 single "Music to Watch Boys To". ==Selected works== ===Poetry collections=== 1913.
The home opened as the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in 2002 and was given to Bennington College in 2017. In 1934, Frost began to spend winter months in Florida.
However, this was replaced in book collections and online edition, likely due to the poem being still under copyright when the comic ran (the poem has since lapsed into public domain, in 2019). The poem "Fire and Ice" is the epigraph of Stephenie Meyers' 2007 book, Eclipse, of the Twilight Saga.
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