Роберт Ли Фрост: биография и творчество

Biography of Robert Frost "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." Done by: Varygina Valeria

Robert Frost was an American poet whose contributions to the world of literature are still valuable. His works are read and quoted even today.

Early Life He was born on the March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. His father first worked as a teacher and later he was the editor. He was a very strict man, and loved to drink and gamble. However, his father died due to tuberculosis and left the family poorly provided.

Education and Wedding Proud of his achievement, he proposed to Elinor Miriam White, his high school sweetheart. She refused, wanting to wait till they finished their education. When he came back later that year, he proposed to her again. This time, she accepted. They were married on December 19, 1895, and had their first child in 1896.

a farm at Derry His grandfather gave them a farm at Derry, in New Hampshire before dying. They settled down on the farm, and stayed and worked there for nine years. That is where he wrote most of his famous works.

In 1912, Robert Frost and his family sailed to Glasgow and settled down in Beaconsfield near London. The next year, he published his first book of poems titled A Boys Will. In 1915, he returned to America and settled down in Franconia, New Hampshire where he bought a farm.

In 1924, he won the Pulitzer Prize, the first out of four, for his book, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. At the age of 86 in 1961, Frost was honored when he was asked to read his famous poem, The Gift Outright" at the inauguration function of President John F. Kennedy. On January 29, 1963, he died because of complications in prostate surgery in Boston. His gravestone is etched with the last line from his poem, The Lesson for Today, which reads, "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."