Robert Frost was born in San Fransisco on the twenty-sixth of the March of 1874. He is one of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century. He won four Pulitzer Prizes with his wonderful poetry looking at the world from a philosopher's point of view. He was inspired by his new home in New England (Massachusetts) that he moved to in 1885.

Frost was taught at high school in Lawrence, and also at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He then started teaching at a school, then moved on to working in a mill and as a cobbler. He also got a job as an editor of the local Sentinel newspaper. Frost also sold his first money-making poem, "The Butterfly", to a New York newspaper in 1894, and married Elinor White in 1895. Two years later, after his line of careers, he went on to Harvard University in Mass. for two years.

Frost bought a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, where he composed peoms for ten years and became a teacher at a local academy. When he was 38, he went to England with his family, so he could do nohing but write his exceptional poems. It was there where he met six inspiring poets: Lascelles Abercrombie, Ezra Pound, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Robert Graves, and T.E. Hulme, all of whom helped him with his poetry.

His first two books, A Boy's Will and North of Boston, were first taken by a publisher in London, later in America. In 1915, he started to New York City, then bought another farm in New Hampshire. He published four more books: Mountian Interval, New Hampshire, Collected Poems, and finally A Further Range, each winnig a Pulitzer Prize. He also won many other honors and awards during this time.

Robert Frost later died in Boston, January 29, 1963.

I personally like his poems of courage to take "The Road Not Taken". He also expressed this virtue in one of my favorites, "West-Running River". A conversation between a young couple made it very interesting. ;-)

--Harrison Reiser

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