Search results
Date (s): 1866 to 1996. Abstract. Robert Frost (1874-1963), poet. The collection documents Frost's career as a poet and speaker as well as his friendships and family life. The bulk of the collection is made up of personal and professional correspondence, manuscript notebooks, and drafts and fair copies of Frost’s poetry, plays, and prose.
OSTON, Jan 29 -- Robert Frost, dean of American poets, died today at the age of 88. He was pronounced dead at Peter Bent Brigham hospital at 1:50 A.M. The poet's general condition began deteriorating two days ago. His attending physician, Dr. Roger B. Hickler, said Mr. Frost died shortly after complaining of severe chest pains and a shortness ...
May 23, 2018 · Robert Lee Frost. Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) was an intentionally American and traditionalist poet in an age of internationalized and experimental art. He used New England idioms, characters, and settings, recalling the roots of American culture, to get at universal experience. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874.
Early Years. Frost's childhood was spent in San Francisco until his father, city editor of the San Francisco Daily Evening Post, died of tuberculosis when Robert was eight years old, at which time his mother returned with her children to Lawrence, Massachusetts, to teach school (they were supported financially by Robert's paternal grandparents).
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is well known for his realistic writings of rural life and his use of American informal (slang) speech. [1] His poems were often set in rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, and used these settings to look at complex social and philosophical ...
Contents. Robert Frost was born on 26th August 1874 to William Prescott, Jr. and Isabelle Moodie Frost. His father, William, was a journalist and was ambitious to make his career in California. He has only one sister Jeanie Frost. In 1885, his father died, and his mother shifted to Lawrence, Massachusetts, with her two children.
During his later years he spent summers in Ripton, Vermont and participated in the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College. On his death on January 29, 1963, Robert Frost was buried in the Old Bennington Cemetery, in Bennington, Vermont. Poetry. Frost has always been a difficult figure to categorize in American poetry.
