Frost, Robert Lee
Frost, Robert Lee ( 1874 – 1963 ),poet, born in San Francisco of New England stock. He was taken at the age of 10 to the New England farm country of which his poetry was to be so deeply expressive. He spent some time at both Dartmouth College and Harvard, but left to teach, edit a country paper, learn to make shoes, and to farm. In 1912 he came to England with his wife and family, where he published his first volumes of poems, A Boy's Will ( 1913 ) and North of Boston ( 1914 ), which contains ‘Mending Wall’ and ‘The Death of the Hired Man’; he met the Georgian poets, and formed a particularly close and fruitful friendship with E. Thomas , whom he was to describe as ‘the only brother I ever had’. Upon his return to New England in 1915 he settled in New Hampshire and continued to write poetry, supporting himself by successive teaching appointments in several colleges. His volumes include...
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