Biography of Robert Frost

"A Boy's Will was published by the London firm of David Nutt and Company in 1913, and was reviewed favorably by American poet and critic Ezra Pound, a highly influential figure in modernist letters. Nutt published North of Boston a year later." As Frost was continuing to write poetry, he began to pursue what would be a life long career as a part-time college teacher.

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Soon they moved to Salem, New Hampshire, where there was a teaching opening. Robert began to go to school and sit in on his mother’s classes. He soon learned to love language, and eventually went to Lawrence High School, where he wrote the words to the school hymn, and graduated as co-valedictorian. Frost read rabidly of Dickens, Tennyson, Longfellow, and many others. Frost was then sent to Dartmouth college by his controlling grandfather, who saw it as the proper place for him to train to become a businessman.

Robert Frost is a very well known poet from the 1920s and is one of the most famous in American history. Frost had a life full of adventure and love which is the root to some of his poems and what he believes in. Robert Frost is writer who’s modern like poems are inspirational and make you contemplate and wonder about life his home life, the world around him, and his own personal feelings that are bases for his amazing poetry. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco California to Isabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr. When Robert was eleven years old his father died from tuberculosis and his mom including his mother and his sister Jeanie who nine moved to Lawrence Massachusetts where his father was originally from.

During 1888 and 1889, Robert Lee Frost graduated one year ahead of the rest of his class from Lawrence High School. As Frost lived on with his life, he was able to accomplish many literary works and also had to overcome the many deaths of his own family. Frosts first poem " La Noche Triste" was published in 1890. He later passes examinations to enter Harvard College but because of expenses, he had to go to Dartmouth College. In the fall of... ... middle of paper ... ... heart failure in Florida.

His father died in 1885 when Robert was only eleven; this caused the family to uproot from California to move to Massachusetts. This is where he would go to high school and eventually become a high school teacher. In 1895 he married Elinor White, the girl he shared Valedictorian honors with at Lawrence High School in Massachusetts. At age 38 he sold the farm he was living on to move his family to England where he could devote himself to his writing. His goal was to establish himself as a writer; his work was an immediate success.

The Frost’s returned east to live with the paternal grandparents, but soon moved to Amherst, New Hampshire to stay with his great-aunt. Shortly after this the family returned to Lawrence, Mass. where Robert was placed in school as a third grader. Frost graduated here as co-valedictorian with Elinor White. Though he was moved often and had troubles with his father in his young life, Frost still maintained good grades and two years before he graduated Frost had “La Noche Triste” printed in the high school bulletin.

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874 (1) Robert Frosts’ father, William Prescott Frost Jr., a teacher, and later on an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, was of English descent, and his mother, Isabelle Moodie, was from Scottish descent (4). Frost lived In San Francisco until he was twelve, when his father died of tuberculosis. Thereafter, he, his mother, and his only sister, Jeanie, lived in the small town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. There Frost attended Lawrence High School where he met his future wife and co-valedictorian, Elinor White (1). The young not-yet poet became interested in reading and writing poetry during his years in high school (3).

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