Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of Great Success How Hard It Is to Keep from Being King When It's in You and in the Situation Does No One at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least? An Unstamped Letter in Our Rural Letter Box The Literate Farmer and the Planet Venus

Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same

Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length On Taking from the Top to Broaden the Base On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations The Need of Being Versed in Country Things A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears, and Some Books Frost preferred traditional rhyme and meter in poetry his famous dismissal of free verse was, 'I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.' Frost attended both Dartmouth College and Harvard, but did not graduate from either school. He also served as 'Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress' from 1958-59 that position was renamed as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (or simply Poet Laureate) in 1986.įrost recited his poem 'The Gift Outright' at the 1961 inauguration of John F. Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times: in 1924, 1931, 19. Frost's poems include 'Mending Wall' ('Good fences make good neighbors'), 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' ('Whose woods these are I think I know'), and perhaps his most famous work, 'The Road Not Taken' ('Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- / I took the one less traveled by'). His pastoral images of apple trees and stone fences - along with his solitary, man-of-few-words poetic voice - helped define the modern image of rural New England. In 1915 he returned to the United States and continued to write while living in New Hampshire and then Vermont. His first two books of verse, A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), were immediate successes. Frost was farming in Derry, New Hampshire when, at the age of 38, he sold the farm, uprooted his family and moved to England, where he devoted himself to his poetry. Flinty, moody, plainspoken and deep, Robert Frost was one of America's most popular 20th-century poets.

The collected poems of robert frost