Robert Frost

Robert Frost was the most celebrated poet in United States in 1920s. His fame was growing every time he published the collections, including New Hampshire, A Further Range, Steeple Bush, and In the Clearing. This popular, famous poet was born in March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, and being eleven years old, his family moved to New England. While attending high school in Lawrence, MA, he became interested in reading and writing poetry. In 1892, he went to Dartmouth College, and later to Harvard; however, never earned any formal degree. Leaving scholar works behind, he worked as a teacher, cobbler and editor of Lawrence Sentinel. On November, 8, 1894, on the New York newspaper The Independent, his first professional poem, My Butterfly, was put.
Robert Frost met and married his muse, the biggest inspiration Elinor Miriam White, his wife in 1895. In 1912, with Elinor, he moved to England where get influences from contemporary British poets and build the friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped him to promote and published the works. In 1915, he returned to United States, and published two completed collections, A Boy's Will and North of Boston, which increased his reputation. In January 29, 1963, he died in Boston.
Robert Frost connected his poem with the life and landscape of New England and the poet of traditional verse forms and metrics who remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic movements and fashions of his time. Also he as the author or searching and dark meditations on universal themes and a contemporary poet 1) in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, 2) in the psychological complexity of his portraits and 3) in the degree to which his work is infused with layers of ambiguity and irony.
The poet Daniel Hoffman said about Frost's early work as "the Puritan ethic turned astonishingly lyrical and enabled to say out loud the sources of its own delight in the world," in a 1970 review of The Poetry of Robert Frost, and he also commented in Frost's career as The American Bard, "He became a national celebrity, our nearly official Poet Laureate, and a great performer in the traditions of that earlier master of the literary vernacular, Mark Twain." Additionally, President John F. Kennedy stated about Frost, "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding."

Biography was found on poets.org (http://www.poems.org/rfros)