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Robert Frost

One of the most well known writers in America is Robert Frost. Frost is famous for his amazing poems about the seasons. Frost was a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry in 1924, and has received more than 40 honorary degrees. Frost had also become a poetic force and the unofficial “poet laureate” of the U.S. Frost was even a special guest at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. Robert Frost wasn’t very popular until he exploded on the scene at the beginning of World War One. Even though he had some great achievements, Frost still had his flaws in life.
Robert Frost was just an average guy for the first forty years of his life. He was always intrigued by writing. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. …show more content…

They ended up selling the farm in New Hampshire and settled in England fairly quickly. Frost’s luck went up, and after only a few months, a publisher printed two of his poem books. The books “A Boy’s Will” and “North of Boston” were published only a year later.
There were two people who had a big impact on Frost’s life. Their names are Ezra Pound and Edward Thomas. They were the ones who loved Frost’s work and encouraged him to keep on writing. Frost was so inspired by Edward Thomas that he wrote a poem about how Edward keeps on going, and Frost called it “The Road Not Taken”.
Robert Frost and his family loved England but forced to move back to America. They moved back in August 1914, due to the start of World War One but, when they returned to America, publishers were searching for Frost so they could publish his work. One publisher, Henry Holt, was the one that Robert Frost chose to publish his work. Henry and Frost became great life long friends. Holt published a collection of Frost’s work from England and called it Frost’s Mountain.
Frost had many of the people that he asked to publish his work come crawling back after rejecting him the first time he was in America. Frost just sent the ones he had sent before and again asked if they would …show more content…

Frost taught at Amherst College for the most part and he taught there from 1916 to 1938. Frost had many jobs including: teaching, a cobbler, a journalist and a bobbin boy for a cotton mill.
Frost had quit teaching due to the death of his beloved wife Elinor. She died in 1938 due to cancer that she had been diagnosed with a year before. Elinor also had been diagnosed with heart problems, which didn’t help her

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