Robert Frost was born on March 26, .1974, in San Francisco,Californla where he spent his boyhood. When Robert was ten, his father died and his mother took him to New England. Where he had his schooling. ln 1892 he graduated and enGred Dart Mouth College. After this he began helping his mother in her school and incidentally he was reporting for two newspapers. Even at fhe age of fourteen he took to writing poems. The ballad that he wrote when he was Iourteen he took to him to poetry. The ballad that he wrote when he was fourteen, got published by Lawrence High School Bulletin. At the age of nineteen one of hii poems got published in "The independent,, and he earned 2i5 for the sime. He got married to Elinor Miriam White at the age ol 21, and two years after his marriage he entered Harvard with an aim top get a degree but In vain. Soon he become a carelaker of the faim given to him by his grandfather, but he did not earn much as he ex-pected. To lead nis life he had to do some other job. So he took to teach_ ing though he had decided to become a poet. He believed that the life of a farmer would provide him with enough time to pursue his hearts' desire, besides affording poetic mate;ial.
He was prepared to put up with hardship. Later the Frosts,had to sell the iarm and they decided to go to England. ln 1912 the Frosts sailed to England. First thelt settled down in Baconsfield and atter a year they started farming in Gloucestershire. Frost then thought of ;n excellent.idea. He had a fairly large collection of poemJ written during the last twenty years. Mrs. Nutt agreed to publish the poems. That was how Frost's A Boy's Will, got published. The English review_ ers gave it warm welcome encouraged by which Frolt published 'North of Boston', the nexi year in 19.l4. This was received with far great acclaim. "Mr. Frost has turned the living speech of men and women into poetry, observed poet Wilfred. Wilson Gibson while reviewing "North ol Boston'. ln the words of other critics Frost suc_ ceeded in expressing in very few words more truths than volumes of ordlnary rhetoric can expiess',. Returning to America in 1915, Frost bought a iarm in New Hampshere. Frost's academic career took him to various coileges and universities to work in the next twenty years, from 1916 to 1936. As poet in residence at Michigan he enjoyed partronager and popularity venerated by students and staff as a greal iather figure. NO professional writer has spent so much time in contact with academic life. During these years ol fame, Frost brought out collections of poems at regular intervals. Mountain interval 1 916, Selected Poems and New Hampshire 1923, \
West-Running Brook (.l928) collected poems
(1 930) A Further Range (1936) co ected poems
(1 938) A Witness Tree (1942) A Mosque of Reason
(1947) and Comptete Poems i 949.
He was awarded the Pulitzer prize four times- the only poet ever to achieve that quadruple distinction. His greatesl moment came when at the inauguration of president Kennedy, Frost, as the national poet was asked to read a poem that he had composed for the occasion. He recited the well-known poem ,The Gift Outright'. Frost died in January 1963 just before his eighty-ninth birthday
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