Frost was born in San Francisco to Isabelle Moodie Frost and William Prescot Frost. After his father’s death from tuberculosis in 1885, Frost moved with his mother and sister to New England, where they settled in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
An inauspicious education at Dartmouth College and Harvard (he never completed a college course to obtain a degree) was followed by various menial jobs and marriage at the age of twenty one. It was not until he took his wife and four children to England in 1912, where he met several of the Georgian poets, that Frost’s talent began to emerge.
In 1894 he published a few poems in The Independent and began corresponding with its literary editor, Susan Hayes Ward.
His first two books of verse, A Boys’ Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), were first published after his arrival in England. The latter volume, in particular, gained international following and contained some of Frost’s most widely read poems, including ‘Mending Wall,’ ‘After Apple-Picking’ and ‘The Wood Pie’.
He returned to United States of America in 1915. The collections that followed, Mountain Interval (1916) and New Hampshire (1923), contained some of Frost’s best and most popular poetry. His later books included Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942).
The ironic tone of much of Frost’s poetry, it’s simple language, and conventional manner make him one of the most accessible of modern poets. Through out of his Frost successfully combined a career as poet, farmer, and university professor and is regarded as one of the masters of twentieth century of United States poetry.
He held positions at many colleges, including the University of Michigan, Dartmouth, Harvard and for extended periods, Amherst.
Robert Frost died in Boston and buried in the family plot in Bennington, Vermont.
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
