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Robert Frost (1) (1874–1963)

Author of The Poetry of Robert Frost

For other authors named Robert Frost, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Robert Frost, the quintessential poet of New England, was born in San Francisco in 1874. He was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. Although he managed to support himself working solely as a poet for most of his life and holding various posts with a number of universities, as a show more young man he was employed as a bobbin boy in a mill, a cobbler, a schoolteacher, and a farmer. Frost, whose poetry focuses on natural images of New England, received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times for: New Hampshire, Collected Poems, A Further Range, and A Witness Tree. His works are noted for combining characteristics of both romanticism and modernism. He also wrote A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, and The Gift Outright, among others. Frost married Elinor Miriam White in 1895, and they had six children--Elliott, Lesley, Carol, Irma, Marjorie, and Elinor Bettina. He died in Boston in 1963. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Robert Frost

The Poetry of Robert Frost (1968) 5,135 copies
Robert Frost's Poems (1970) 1,263 copies
Mountain Interval (1916) 1,246 copies
You Come Too (1959) 793 copies
Selected Poems (1992) 608 copies
A Boy's Will/North of Boston (1913) 551 copies
Robert Frost: Selected Poems (1992) 503 copies
In the Clearing (1962) 443 copies
Frost (1997) 400 copies
The poems of Robert Frost (1946) 193 copies
North of Boston (1914) 178 copies
Birches (1973) 161 copies
Early Poems (1981) 151 copies
Versed in Country Things (1996) 141 copies
Robert Frost Poetry & PROSE (1972) 127 copies
New Hampshire (1923) 110 copies
Christmas Trees (1990) 103 copies
A Swinger of Birches (1982) 102 copies
A further range (1777) 88 copies
A Boy's Will (1913) 83 copies
Three Great American Poets (1900) 73 copies
A Masque of Reason (1944) 57 copies
A Witness Tree (1942) 44 copies
West-running Brook (1928) 38 copies
The Poetry of Robert Frost (1975) 31 copies
The Runaway (1998) 31 copies
Steeple bush (1947) 26 copies
Robert Frost on Writing (1973) 25 copies
A masque of mercy (1947) 22 copies
A Prayer in Spring (2011) 16 copies
The Cow in Apple Time (2005) 14 copies
From Snow to Snow (1936) 13 copies
Promises to keep (2011) 10 copies
Robert Frost (1955) 9 copies
The Road Not Taken (2010) 8 copies
FUOCO E GHIACCIO POESIE (2022) 6 copies
Fire and Ice (1920) 5 copies
The Aim Was Song (1964) 5 copies
Color the Road Not Taken (2017) 5 copies
Collected poems (1939) 5 copies
Miles to Go (2019) 5 copies
Robert Frost Reads (1992) 4 copies
Selected Early Poems (2008) 4 copies
Dikt i utvalg (2019) 4 copies
Stories for Lesley (1984) 4 copies
Poesía completa (2017) 4 copies
Mending Wall (1914) 3 copies
My November Guest (2013) 3 copies
Works of Robert Frost (2009) 3 copies
Gebre I Sol (2003) 3 copies
Mowing [poem] 3 copies
Dust of Snow (1975) 2 copies
A Group of Poems (2013) 2 copies
Caprice 2 copies
Stars [poem] 2 copies
The Vantage Point (1913) 2 copies
Early Poetry (2004) 2 copies
PROSAS (ROBERT FROST) (1900) 2 copies
Frost Poetry 1 copy
Christmas Short Works Collection 2014 — Contributor — 1 copy
Healing Poetry (2013) 1 copy
“Mowing” 1 copy
“Bereft” 1 copy
55 wierszy 1 copy
Kitty Hawk (1956) 1 copy
Storm Fear (1913) 1 copy
Revelation 1 copy
The Armful 1 copy
IZABRANE PJESME (1996) 1 copy
Waiting 1 copy
In a Vale 1 copy
A Dream Pang 1 copy
In Neglect 1 copy
Out, Out— (2010) 1 copy
Prosa 1 copy

Associated Works

One Hundred and One Famous Poems (1916) — Contributor, some editions — 1,932 copies
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributor — 1,254 copies
Winter Poems (1994) — Contributor — 1,166 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 915 copies
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Contributor — 774 copies
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Contributor — 545 copies
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contributor, some editions — 443 copies
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributor — 388 copies
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Contributor — 335 copies
The Art of Losing (2010) — Contributor — 197 copies
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributor — 162 copies
Best Remembered Poems (1992) — Contributor — 157 copies
Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories (1958) — Contributor — 142 copies
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contributor — 140 copies
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (2003) — Contributor — 134 copies
A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (1929) — Contributor — 128 copies
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Contributor — 114 copies
Emergency Kit (1996) — Contributor, some editions — 108 copies
Twentieth-Century American Poetry (1777) — Contributor — 96 copies
The Norton Book of Friendship (1991) — Contributor — 95 copies
New Poets of England and America (1957) — Introduction — 91 copies
Storytelling and Other Poems (1949) — Contributor — 90 copies
Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (2020) — Contributor — 88 copies
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contributor — 72 copies
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Contributor — 68 copies
American Sonnets: An Anthology (2007) — Contributor — 65 copies
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Contributor — 63 copies
Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2004) — Contributor — 57 copies
Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (2000) — Contributor — 57 copies
Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (1996) — Contributor — 49 copies
The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Contributor — 48 copies
Prose and Poetry for Appreciation (1934) — Contributor — 44 copies
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contributor — 39 copies
Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2006) — Contributor — 33 copies
The Grandma Moses storybook (1961) — Contributor — 32 copies
The Magic Circle: Stories and People in Poetry (1952) — Contributor — 32 copies
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 28 copies
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Contributor — 26 copies
Soliloquy for Pan (2015) — Contributor — 20 copies
American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany (2007) — Contributor — 19 copies
Fireflies in the Garden [2008 film] (2012) — Original poem — 14 copies
Fairy Poems (2023) — Contributor — 13 copies
Trees: A Celebration (1989) — Contributor — 13 copies
American Poems 1779-1900 (1922) — Contributor — 11 copies
Of Leaf and Flower: Stories and Poems for Gardeners (2001) — Contributor — 11 copies
All Day Long: An Anthology of Poetry for Children (1954) — Contributor — 9 copies
Writer to Writer: Readings on the Craft of Writing (1966) — Contributor — 8 copies
King Jasper (1935) — Introduction, some editions — 8 copies
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Contributor — 8 copies
Perspectives on poetry (1968) — Contributor — 7 copies
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contributor — 5 copies
War poems from the Yale review (1919) — Contributor — 5 copies
Let Us Be Men (1969) — Contributor — 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 1974 (1974) — Contributor — 3 copies
The Best of American Poetry [Audio] (1997) — Contributor — 1 copy
Direction, Vol 1 No 1 (Autumn 1934) — Contributor — 1 copy
Conversations on the craft of poetry — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name
Frost, Robert Lee
Birthdate
1874-03-26
Date of death
1963-01-29
Burial location
Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
San Francisco, California, USA
Place of death
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Places of residence
Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
Derry, New Hampshire, USA
Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Franconia, New Hampshire, USA (show all 7)
Ripton, Vermont, USA
Education
Lawrence High School (valedictorian)
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Occupations
poet
teacher
farmer
Relationships
Santayana, George (teacher)
James, William (teacher)
Pound, Ezra (friend)
Organizations
National Institute of Arts and Letters
American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Philosophical Society
International PEN
Bread Loaf School of English
Amherst College (show all 9)
University of Michigan
Theta Delta Chi
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Awards and honors
American Academy of Poets Award
Bollingen Prize in Poetry
Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
Gold Medal of the Poetry Society of America
Gold Medal, Limited Editions Club
Gold Medal, U.S. Senate (show all 25)
Congressional Gold Medal
Medal of Honor, New York University
Mark Twain medal
Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1958)
Edward MacDowell Medal
Poet Laureate of Vermont
Golden Rose Trophy, New England Poetry Club
Huntington Hartford Foundation Award
Read "Dedication" and "The Gift Outright" at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration
Inducted into American Poet's Corner at Cathedral of St. John the Divine
More than forty honorary degrees from colleges and universities
Phi Beta Kappa poet
The Frost Place
The Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire
Fellow in Letters, lifetime appointment, University of Michigan
Robert Frost Ann Arbor home
Only person to receive two honorary degrees from Dartmouth College
Named after Robert E. Lee
Valedictorian of his high-school class

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This is a collection of poetry by Robert Frost, divided into seasons. Wonderful illustrations add so much beauty to the poems. Would use a selection(very big book, would not read all) for 3-5th graders in a poetry unit.
 
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zrobinson | 41 other reviews | Mar 18, 2024 |
Here are the selected poems I read from the WEM poetry suggestions. Most of my reviews of them can be found on my Goodreads Community Group Well-Educated Mind Poetry Reading List (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_folder/479790?group_id=1169825).

After Apple Picking
Birches
The Death of the Hired Man
Departmental
Design
Fire and Ice
Home Burial
Mending Wall
Mowing
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
Nothing Gold Can Stay
The Pasture
Putting in the Seed
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
To Earthward
Trespass
The Wood-Pile
… (more)
 
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GRLopez | 3 other reviews | Feb 20, 2024 |
This book is about Robert Frost's poetry, which includes lyrics, narrative, and dramatic poems. It's good for teaching different types of poetry, especially on a fall day. Kids can draw what they hear or what speaks to them while reading the poems.
 
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rachel.noordam | 41 other reviews | Jan 29, 2024 |

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