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Robert Frost, one of the most well-known and well respected American poets, he wrote a lot about rural life in New England and how the lifestyle differed from here in America. Robert Lee Frost was born March 26, 1874 and he passed away on January 29, 1963 from complications from prostate surgery. He was born in San Francisco, California, and he died in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 88. He was married to Elinor Miriam White (1895-1938) and they had a total of six children. Robert Frost’s children’s were named, Elliot (1896-1904), Lesley (1899-1983), Carol (1902-1940), Irma (1903-1967), Majorie (1905-1934), Elinor Bettina (1907). Robert Lee Frost attended Harvard University from 1897 to 1899 but he did not receive a degree, he left early due to illness. One of his most notable works was, A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, the beginning was A Boy’s Will and it was first published in 1913. The second half, North of Boston, was published in 1914. Both these collections were a two volume series …show more content…

He taught for forty-two years, from 1921 to 1962, at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College in Ripton, Vermont. In 1921, Robert Frost accepts a teaching job at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where, he lived until 1927 when he returned back home to teach at Amherst. The Robert Frost Ann Arbor home was bought by The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan and relocated the house to the museum’s Greenfield Village site for tours that are open for the public. In 1934, Frost decided to spend the winter months in Florida, in March 1935, he gave a speech at the University of Miami. In 1940, he bought a five acre area in South Miami, Florida, naming it Pencil Pines. In Helen Muir’s memoir, she writes, “Frost had called his five acres Pencil Pines because he said he never made a penny from anything that did not involve the use of a pencil.” (Barren

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