Robert Frost:
Behind the Poet
Robert Frost:
Behind the Poet
Robert Frost was born in San Fransico, California on March 26, 1874.He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in the reading and writing of poetry during his high school education in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, but never earned a formal degree. Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school. These included working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem, "The Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York papercalled "The Independent".
In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple moved to England in 1912,after their New Hampshire farm failed, and it was abroad that Frost met and was influenced by British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work. By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two full-length collections, A Boy's Will and North of Boston, and his reputation was established. By the 1920's, he was the most celebrated poet in America, and with each new book—including New Hampshire (1923), A Further Range (1936), Steeple Bush (1947), and In the Clearing (1962)—his fame and honors (including four Pulitzer Prizes) increased.
Although his work is associated with the life and landscape of Vermont, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics who remained apart from the poetic movements and fashions of his time, Frost is anything but a minor poet. The author of searching and often dark meditations on huge themes, he is a modern poet in his language as it is actually spoken, in the complexity of his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is indulged with layers of beauty and irony. Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died on January 29, 1963, in Boston.
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