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Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26th 1874. He was a leading 20th century poet and a four time Pulitzer Prize winner.
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After Robert’s father’s death in 1885 the Frost family moved from California to Massachusetts.
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Upon returning to Massachusetts from college in 1858 he wrote and sold his poem called “The Butterfly: An Elegy”. He sold it to The Independent which is a New York literary journal.
THINE emulous fond flowers are dead, too,
And the daft sun-assaulter, he
That frighted thee so oft, is fled or dead:
Save only me
Save only me
There is none left to mourn thee in the fields. -
Later on , in 1895, he married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry until her death in 1938.
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But when Robert was 38 which was in 1912 he sold the family farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England. While there he devoted himself entirely to writing.
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A poem he wrote in 1913 was called A Boy’s Will it was an immediate success and was accepted by a London publisher. ONE of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom.
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The sales of the book and of A Boy’s Will made it possible for the Frost’s to buy a new farm in Franconia, New Hampshire which was again in 1915.
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But in 1915 The Frost’s sailed back for the United States and landed in New York City two days after the U.S publication of North of Boston, which was the first book of his to be published in America.
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In 1916 Robert Frost was able to publish his third book Mountain Interval.
A Patch of Old Snow There's a patch of old snow in a corner
That I should have guessed
Was a blow-away paper the rain
Had brought to rest. -
Robert won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923.
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Robert's wife lovely devoted wife, Elinor, dies.
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Robert Frost died on the 29th of January 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts
