FROST, Robert Lee [1875-1963] -- American poet
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Poet Laureate of Vermont
America's poet:
The leading American poet of the 20th century.
Much honored, he was the first to win four Pulitzers.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken 1916
A style, form and meter traditionalist,
Frost remained aloof and unmoved by the currents stirring poesy
in the first half of the twentieth century.
He once called Carl Sandburg [1878-1967] a fraud for his more colloquial style.
1890/04 | His first published poem, "La Noche Triste", appears in the Lawrence High School Bulletin |
1892 | Studied at Dartmouth College |
1893 | Instructor in Latin at his mother's private school in Lawrence, MA |
1897-1999 | Studied at Harvard College |
1900-1905 | Lived on a farm his grandfather bought for him in Derry, NH |
1905-1911 | Teacher in English at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, NH |
1911-1912 | Teacher of psychology at the NH State Normal School at Plymouth |
1912 | Sailed to England to devote his time to writing poetry |
1912/09-1914 | Lived in Beaconsfield, BKM, ENG |
1914 | Was a farmer at Little Iddens, GLS |
1915 | He purchased a farm at South Shaftsbury, VT |
1915/03 | He returned to America |
1916-1920 | Professor of English at Dartmouth College |
1920-? | Summer lecturer at the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College |
1923-1925 | Professor of English at Dartmouth College |
1924 | Pulitzer Prize for poetry ("New Hampshire") |
1925-1926 | Fellow in Letters, University of Michigan |
1926 | Professor of English at Dartmouth College |
1931 | Pulitzer Prize for poetry ("Collected Poems") |
1931 | Loines Prize for Poetry |
1933 | A fellow at Pierson College of Yale University |
1936 | Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry at Harvard |
1936-1939 | Member of Board of Overseers, Harvard |
1937 | Pulitzer Prize for poetry ("A Further Range") |
1937 | Mark Twain Medal |
1938 | Gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters |
1939-1941 | Ralph Waldo Emerson fellow at Harvard College |
1941 | Silver medal of the Poetry Society of America |
1941 | Fellow in American civilization (Harvard?) |
1943 | Pulitzer Prize for poetry ("Witness Tree"). |
1943-? | Ticknor Fellow in the Humanities at Dartmouth College |
1948-1963 | Simpson Lecturer in Literature, Amherst |
1953 | Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets |
1958 | Consultant in Poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress |
1958 | Emerson-Thoreau Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
1959-1961 | Honorary Consultant in the Humanities at the Library of Congress |
1960 | Congress passes bill awarding Frost a gold medal in recognition of his poetry |
1961 | Vermont state legislature names Frost "Poet Laureate of Vermont" |
1963 | Bollingen Prize for Poetry |
A Boy's Will London, 1913 Collected Poems New York, 1922 Collected Poems New York, 1930 (Pulitzer) Collected Poems New York, 1939 Come In and Other Poems New York, 1945 Complete Poems of Robert Frost 1949 From Snow to Snow New York, 1936 Further Range New York, 1936 (Pulitzer) Gold Hesperidee New York 1936 Lone Striker New York, 1933 Mountain Interval New York, 1916 New Hampshire New York, 1923 (Pulitzer) North of Boston London, 1914; New York, 1914 Selected Poems New York, 1934 A Way Out (a play) New York, 1934 West-running Brook New York, 1928 Witness Tree New York, 1942 (Pulitzer)
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An electronic exhibit at UVA. Named for an in-house manuscript magazine assembled and contributed to by the four Frost children, chosen friends and several parents. Lesley had initiated the project in the summerhouse in Beaconsfield, to be continued at Little Iddens and briefly in Franconia; it was she who would type and assemble the little magazine, a single copy of which was to be issued monthly, with stories, poems, essays, and illustrations by the invited contributors. The finished copy would then be circulated to the subscribing families.
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