Essay Archive - Biography of Robert Frost
Biography of Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost, b. San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, d. Boston, Jan. 29,
1963, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time
winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often
associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical
dimensions transcend any region. Although his verse forms are traditional-
-he often said, in a dig at archrival Carl Sandburg, that he would as soon
play tennis without a net as write free verse--he was a pioneer in the
interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and
inflections of everyda....
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