1910's The Arts | "The Imagining Ear"

Lecture

By: Robert Frost

Date: 1915

Source: Frost, Robert. "The Imagining Ear." Collected Poems, Prose & Poetry. New York: Library of America, 1995.

About the Author: Robert Frost (1874–1963) was born in San Francisco, California. His father, William Prescott Frost, was a New Englander, and his mother, Isabel Moodie Frost, was Scottish. William, a journalist and local politician, died when Frost was 11, and the family returned to the East coast to live with family members. Though not an ambitious student, young Robert found that he loved literature during high school. He eventually attended both Dartmouth College and Harvard, but did not earn a degree from either school. Frost supported himself by teaching, farming, and working in a textile mill before he began publishing poetry. In 1895, he married Elinor White. His first poem had been published in 1894 and he...