Meet Our September 2010
Feature Poet

Robert Frost

(1874-1963)

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California in 1874, but grew up in New England. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard but, never completed a degree. Frost wandered through a series of occupations before settling down as a farmer. During this time he was writing poetry but spent diffucult years as an unrecognized poet until the acceptance of his published book Boy's Will in 1913. While in England he met a number of emerging poets Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats. Frost returned to the United States in 1915 with a couple of publications to his credit - two full-length collections, A Boy's Will and North of Boston; his reputation as a writer was indeed established. Additionally, more publications followed, A Further Range, Steeple Bush, and In the Clearing. He became the most celebrated poet in America and was awarded with several Pulitzer Prizes and honorary degrees.
Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died on January 29, 1963, in Boston.

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't,
and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

- Robert Frost

~ Read the poetry of Robert Frost published on PoeticPortal. ~

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