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Robert Frost: Facts & Related Content
Facts
Also Known As | Robert Lee Frost |
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Born | March 26, 1874 • San Francisco • California |
Died | January 29, 1963 (aged 88) • Boston • Massachusetts |
Title / Office | poet laureate (1958-1959) |
Awards And Honors | Pulitzer Prize • Bollingen Prize (1962) |
Notable Works | “A Boy’s Will” • “A Further Range” • “A Witness Tree” • “After Apple-Picking” • “In the Clearing” • “Mending Wall” • “Mountain Interval” • “New Hampshire” • “North of Boston” • “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” • “Storm Fear” • “The Death of the Hired Man” • “The Road Not Taken” |
Did You Know?
- Robert Frost wrote the poem "The Road Not Taken" as a joke about his friend.
- Frost was the first of only five poets to recite a poem at a U.S. presidential inauguration.
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