Monday, September 28, 2015

Do you think Frost finally became popular in America as a poet?

Robert Frost's first published poem was printed in 1894,
when he was 20 years old. He continued to write poetry, and studied poetry during the
two years he spent as a student at Harvard. While starting his family and working as a
farmer and a teacher, Frost also wrote and published poems. Frost and his family spent
1912-1915 in England, during which time he wrote and published two collections of poetry
and made the acquaintance of a number of already well-known writers and poets, who
provided support and encouragement. By the time of his return to the United States,
Frost was developing a reputation and a following as a recognized poet. He won the 1923
Pulitzer Prize for his collection New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace
Notes.
As an instructor at Amherst College and Harvard, he became well-known
for his poetry readings, with subjects ranging from his appreciation of nature to
comments on social and political issues of his time. By the time of his death, he had
been awarded honorary doctorate degrees by the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and
had been named poet laureate of the United States as well as reading one of his poems at
the inauguration of Pres. John F. Kennedy.

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