Mending Wall
Robert lee frost |
Robert lee frost was born in San Francisco , and after his
father death in 1885, he moved with his family to Lawrence , Massachusetts, where
he became interested in reading and writing poetry while in high school . Forest attended
Dartmouth college and Harvard University, but never received a degree. He was a
jack of all trade s. And had many different occupation after leaving school,
including a teacher, a cobbler , and editor of the local newspaper, the
“Lawrence sentinel”. His first published
poem was “ My butterfly : An “ elegy ” in the new York literary journal “ the Independent “
in 1894. A Later he married Elinor
Miriam White , with whom he shared valedictorian honours with at his
Massachusetts High school
In the following years , he operated a farm in Derry ,new
Hampshire ,and taught at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy .In 1912 ,he sold his farm
and moved his family to England ,where he could devote himself entirely to his
writing .His efforts to establish himself in England were immediately successful
,and In 1913 he published “ A Boy’s will “ , followed a year later by “North of
Boston” .It was in England where he met and was influenced by life - long
friendship with Ezra pound , who helped to promote and publish his work .
Frost returned to the United states in 1915 , and by the
1920 “s ,he was the most celebrate poet in North America , and was granted four
Pulitzer Prizes .Robert frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts
and Vermont ,and died on January 29,
1963 in Boston .
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