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Robert Frost And His Life - Research Paper

Robert Frost And His Life


I am working on establishing a more complete bio on Robert Frost, however in the meantime please excuse the reprint from a well known encyclopedia with permission. The messsage from Groliers stated"If you are only using a small portion and what you are distributing is not for profit, please simply cite us when utilizing our articles as: The Acedameic American Encyclopedia, copyright 1995 Grolier Electronic Publishing"...well there you have it.
Robert Lee Frost, b. San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, d. Boston, Jan. 29, 1963, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often associated with rural New England, Frost ...

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left California and settled in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school in that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taughtschool and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence (Mass.) High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased for him by his paternal grandfather), and supplemented his income by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy.
In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. His efforts to establish himself and his work were almost immediately ...

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Added: 12/18/2005 03:12:21 AM
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