Robert Frost was a great American poet, whose works are read widely even today. He was given a lot of prizes during his lifetime.
Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. When his father died on May 5, 1885, he moved to Massachusetts to live with his mother and sister. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892, and attended Dartmouth College for a term. Then he went back home to teach and did several other part-time jobs including sending newspapers.
In 1894, he sold his first poem My Butterfly, An Elegy for 15 dollars. And one year later he got married with Elinor Miriam White on December 19, and the next year they had their first child. Till 1897, they taught together in school. Then Robert moved to study in Harvard University. He stayed there for two years, but had to return due to his ill health. His grandfather gave them a farm at Derry, in New Hampshire before dying. They lived on the farm. He stayed and worked there for nine years. That’s where he wrote most of his famous poems.
In 1912, Robert Frost and his family moved to Glasgow and lived in Beaconsfield near London. The next year, he published his first book of poems titled A Boy’s Will. In 1915, he returned to America and lived in Franconia, New Hampshire where he bought a farm. He then began teaching and writing. And then in 1924, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. He won again for Collected Poems, in 1931, A Further Range, in 1937, and A Witness Tree, in 1943.
On January 29, 1963, this great poet died of illness in Boston. He was buried in the Old Bennington Cemetery in Vermont.
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