Robert Frost Poetry Reading by Shanid,
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)*
Born Robert Lee Frost in San Francisco, California, USA. Father was a teacher, journalist, and editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin; mother was a teacher. With Frost's father's death in 1885 the family moved to Massachusetts to be financially supported by their grandfather. Educated at Lawrence High School, Dartmouth College (1892) (dropped out). Married Elinor Miriam White in 1895. Attended Harvard University (1897) (dropped out due to illness). After university, Frost worked the farm that his grandfather had bought him before working as a teacher. Moved to England in 1912 to further his writing career. Things changed quickly; he had two volumes of poetry published within two years and was embraced by contemporaries and critics alike. Back in the U.S. in 1915, he taught English at numerous universities while continuing to write very popular poetry. Died in 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. Frost is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. Although Frost grew up in the city, it is his depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech that has made him one of America's greatest poets.
Further reading:
'The Collected Poems' (Vintage Classics)
'The Robert Frost Collection' (Wilder Publications)

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