Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born on March 26th, 1874 and died on January 29th, 1963. He is a very well known for his writings of the farm/rural life in England and normal American speech. He had received many awards including four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.
He was born in San Francisco. California and was half Scottish and half British. His English father died of tuberculosis when Frost was eleven and his mother died of cancer when he was twenty-six. He also had to admit his sister into a mental hospital in 1920 and she stayed for nine years until she died when he was fifty-five. Although most of his poems talk about the rural life, he had grown up in the city. His first poem was in his high-school magazine. He did a few jobs after his two years at Dartmouth College but he didn't particularly enjoy any of them
The first poems he sold were a part of "My Butterfly. An Elegy" on November 8th, 1894 and they sold for an equivalent of near $400. He got married to his wife Elinor Miriam White after proposing on November 8th and became married on December 19th, 1895. He moved to England with Elinor in 1912. His wife was a very important inspiration for his poems as well until her death in 1938.
England was where he found poems of famous British poets (e.g. Edward Thomas and Robert Graves) and was changed by them. In England, he also made a friend with someone named Ezra Pound, who helped him later on in publishing/promoting his work. Frost returned back to America in 1915, and he had created a reputation for himself. He had published two collections with one of them being A Boy's Will And The North Of Boston. Throughout the 1920's, Robert Frost was the most celebrated poet of North America and he was receiving more awards with each new book he wrote.
Robert Frost lived in Massachusetts and was a teacher until his death on January 29th, 1963.
He was born in San Francisco. California and was half Scottish and half British. His English father died of tuberculosis when Frost was eleven and his mother died of cancer when he was twenty-six. He also had to admit his sister into a mental hospital in 1920 and she stayed for nine years until she died when he was fifty-five. Although most of his poems talk about the rural life, he had grown up in the city. His first poem was in his high-school magazine. He did a few jobs after his two years at Dartmouth College but he didn't particularly enjoy any of them
The first poems he sold were a part of "My Butterfly. An Elegy" on November 8th, 1894 and they sold for an equivalent of near $400. He got married to his wife Elinor Miriam White after proposing on November 8th and became married on December 19th, 1895. He moved to England with Elinor in 1912. His wife was a very important inspiration for his poems as well until her death in 1938.
England was where he found poems of famous British poets (e.g. Edward Thomas and Robert Graves) and was changed by them. In England, he also made a friend with someone named Ezra Pound, who helped him later on in publishing/promoting his work. Frost returned back to America in 1915, and he had created a reputation for himself. He had published two collections with one of them being A Boy's Will And The North Of Boston. Throughout the 1920's, Robert Frost was the most celebrated poet of North America and he was receiving more awards with each new book he wrote.
Robert Frost lived in Massachusetts and was a teacher until his death on January 29th, 1963.