He received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and became the public face of 20th century American poetry.
in 1915 and began teaching at Amherst College and the University of Michigan, all the while continuing to write poetry. In order to avoid WWI, Frost returned to the U.S. Finally, after years of struggle, Frost became a famous poet essentially overnight. įrost’s second anthology, North of Boston, was published in 1914 and found massive success in England. It was there he published his first anthology of poetry, A Boy’s Will, in 1913. Consequently, Frost decided to sell the farm in 1911 and moved his family to London. But Frost’s poetry was still largely overlooked by American publishers. Frost would live there for nine years, and many of his most famous early poems were written before his morning chores while tending to the farm. In 1900, feeling frustrated by his job prospects and a lack of traction in his poetry career, Frost moved his family to a farm left to him by his grandfather in Derry, New Hampshire.
To complicate matters further, Frost and his wife, Elinor, suffered personal tragedy when two of their six children died in infancy. His poetry wasn’t gaining traction in the United States, either. He attended both Dartmouth and Harvard, but dropped out of both before graduating. But unfortunately, the next segment of Frost’s life would be marked by upheaval. Frost was named both the valedictorian and the “class poet” of his high school graduating class.and two years later published his first poem, “My Butterfly: An Elegy,” in the New York Independent magazine.Īt this point, Frost knew he wanted to be a poet. When he was about ten years old, his family moved to Massachusetts to be near his grandfather, who owned a sawmill. His father was a newspaper editor (a profession Frost later practiced himself, among others), and his mother was a teacher and Scottish immigrant. Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco, California. Robert Frost is widely recognized as one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. There’s a lot to talk about, so let’s get going!
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