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Robert Frost

Robert Frost. 1874-1963. His life. Born on March 26, 1874, Robert Frost spent his first 40 years as an unknown. Won four Pulitzer Prizes and was a special guest at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. He died of complications from cancer on January 29, 1963. His early years.

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Robert Frost

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  1. Robert Frost 1874-1963

  2. His life • Born on March 26, 1874, Robert Frost spent his first 40 years as an unknown. • Won four Pulitzer Prizes and was a special guest at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. • He died of complications from cancer on January 29, 1963.

  3. His early years • Born in San Francisco, California. • Spent 12 years of his life there until his father died of tuberculosis. • After his father passed the family moved to Massachusetts. • While living in Massachusetts he met his future wife Elinor White.

  4. More on his life • After high school, Frost attended Dartmouth University for several months only to return home to work a variety of unfulfilling jobs. • In 1894, Frost proposed to Elinor, and she proceeded to turn him down because she wanted to finish college. • A year later Frost would again propose to Elinor and this time she said yes and the family had their first child in 1896.

  5. Robert Frost cont. • In 1897, Frost attended Harvard University, but had to drop out after two years due to health concerns. • He returned to his hometown to be with his wife. She was now pregnant with their second child, Lesley, who in fact suffered from mental illness.

  6. The 1900s • In 1900, Frost moved him and his family to a farm in New Hampshire (they attempted to make a life on it for the next 12 years). • This time was great for Frost’s writing, it was a difficult period in his personal life. • Elinor gave birth to four more children. • Two of the children died and another developed mental illness like her older sibling.

  7. Early 1900s • During their time on the farm, Frost and Elinor tried several business endeavors, which were all unsuccessful. • Despite these challenges, it was during this time that Frost really committed himself to his writing. Although, he had a few poems published, he struggled to find a publisher to support his writing.

  8. 1912 • Frost and his family sold the farm and moved to England. They hoped there would be more publishers that would take a chance on a new poet. • Within a few months, Frost found a publisher that would publish his first book of poems, A Boy’s Will.

  9. Influences • While in England, Frost met two men that would affect his life in significant ways. • The two men were Ezra Pound and Edward Thomas. • Pound and Thomas were the first to review his work in a favorable light, as well as provide significant encouragement.

  10. Edward Thomas • Frost credited Thomas’s long walks over the English landscape as the inspiration for one of his most famous poems, “The Road Not Taken.” • Thomas’s indecision and regret regarding what path to take inspired Frost’s work.

  11. Fun Facts • Frost returned home to America in 1915 to escape WWI. • Frost earned more than 40 honorary degrees during his lifetime. • Frost, along with Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Eliot, helped release Ezra Pound from a federal mental hospital, where he was being held for treason.

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