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Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco. When he was just ten years old, his father died, and Frost’s family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with his paternal grandparents. Though Frost attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University, he never earned a formal degree. He spent much of his twenties and thirties farming and teaching. In 1912, he moved, with his wife and children, to England where publishers were more receptive to his work. But he moved back to the States in 1915 after the start of the First World War. He lived for the rest of his life mostly in Massachusetts and Vermont. Robert Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes and the Congressional Medal of Honor. He died in Boston in 1963.
Links:
Read "Polk Street" and "Mercy" by Charles Douthat
Read "After Apple-Picking" by Robert Frost
Charles Douthat
"A Few Minutes After Nine" in The Los Angeles Review
"The Planting" in The Nature of Our Times
"Grounds" in Leon Literary Review
Robert Frost
Bio and Poems at The Poetry Foundation's website
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