The Oxford Companion to American Literature | Frost, Robert [Lee]
Frost, Robert [Lee]( 1874–1963), member of a New England family, was born in San Francisco and taken at the age of ten to the New England farm country with which his poetry is identified. After a brief attendance at Dartmouth, where he disliked the academic attitude, he became a bobbin boy in a Massachusetts mill, and a short period at Harvard was followed by further work, making shoes, editing a country newspaper, teaching school, and finally farming. This background of craftsmanship and husbandry had its effect upon his poetry in more than the choice of subjects, for he demanded that his verse be as simple and honest as an axe or hoe. After a long period of farming, he moved to England (1912–15), where he published his first book of poems, A Boy's Will (1913), whose lyrics, including Into My Own, Revelation, Mowing, and Reluctance, are marked by an intense but restrained emotion and the characteristic...
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