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Robert frost

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    Robert Frost

  • born

    born

    born in san francisco
  • frosts father died

    frosts father died

    After his death on May 5, 1885, the family moved across the country to Lawrence, Massachusetts.
  • Frost sells his first poem

    Frost sells his first poem

    In 1894 he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly. An Elegy" (published in the November 8, 1894.
  • Got married

    Got married

    before they married. Frost then went on an excursion to the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and asked Elinor again upon his return. Having graduated, she agreed, and they were married at Lawrence, Massachusetts on December 19, 1895.
  • attended Harvard University

    attended Harvard University

  • Left Harvard University

    Left Harvard University

    he left voluntarily due to illness.
  • Beacame a teacher in New hamshire

    Beacame a teacher in New hamshire

  • left new hamshire

    he returned to the field of education as an English teacher at New Hampshire's Pinkerton Academy from 1906 to 1911, then at the New Hampshire Normal School (now Plymouth State University) in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
  • sails to britain with his family

    sails to britain with his family

  • Returned to America

    Returned to America

    where Holt's American edition of A Boy's Will had recently been published.
  • teaches at Bread Loaf School of English

    teaches at Bread Loaf School of English

    For forty-two years — from 1921 to 1963 — Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont.
  • won first prize

    won first prize

    he won the first of four Pulitzer Prizes for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.
  • Returned to teach

    Returned to teach

    returned to teach at Amherst. While teaching at the University of Michigan, he was awarded a lifetime appointment at the University as a Fellow in Letters
  • Daughter marjorie dies

    Daughter marjorie dies

    daughter Marjorie (1905–1934, died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth
  • Bought a 5 acre plot

    Bought a 5 acre plot

    he bought a 5-acre (2.0 ha) plot in South Miami, Florida
  • 1947. Frost's wife, Elinor, also experienced bouts of depression.

    1947. Frost's wife, Elinor, also experienced bouts of depression.

  • congress gold medal

    congress gold medal

    Frost was named Poet laureate of Vermont.
  • past away

    past away

    January 29, 1963, of complications from prostate surgery. He was buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont. His epitaph quotes the last line from his poem, "The Lesson for Today (1942): "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."