Lankes, EdwardĬonnery Lathem, John Masefield, Harry Meacham, Harold Monro, Kathleen Morrison, Fackenthal, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, Vera Harvey, J. Briggs, Abbie Farwellīrown, Cyril Clemens, Padraic Colum, Lewis Henry Cohn, Grace Hazard Conkling,Īaron Copland, Clarence R. Other correspondents include Clifton Waller and Cornelia Barrett, William Stanley Braithwaite, LeBaron R. Letters from English friends during World War I mention the English Hillyer touch on readings, honors, and Hillyer's poetry. Bernheimer discuss his writing, health, family affairs, and Bernheimer's Frost collection. ThereĪre also five letters of Frost's parents William Prescott Frost, Jr. Prescott Frost, as well as correspondence of granddaughter Lesley Lee Francis. Of Birches and a typescript of "The constant symbol " by Clifton Waller Barrett.įrost family correspondence includes letters from Robert and Elinor to daughter Lesley Frost Francis, and grandson William Judd Hall as well as page proof of Sidney Cox's A Swinger Bartlett, Margaret Bartlett, Elizabeth Jennings, and Dorothy Manuscripts about Robert Frost include notes or articles by John T. Manuscripts by the Frost children include notebooks of poetry and short stories by Lesley, Carol, and Irma Frost, and "The Bouquet " magazine by the Frost children and English With these are some proof and other publication materials for the Limited Editions Club volume of The Complete Poems of Robert Frost. Many are fair copies written for Earle Bernheimer, Clifton Waller Barrett and others. The collection contains manuscripts of poetry, plays, addresses, essays, notebook, a workbook, and other writings by Frost. The years he received an unprecedented number and range of literary, academic, and public honors. He received the PulitzerĪgain for Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942). In 1924 he received a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire (1923). to place new poems in literary periodicals and publishĪ third book, Mountain Interval (1916) and to embark on a long career of writing, Sales of thatīook and of A Boy's Will enabled Frost to buy a farm in Franconia, N.H. Of North of Boston, the first of his books to be published in America. The Frosts returned to the United States in February 1915 and landed in New York City two days after the U.S. Publication of the books by Henry Holt and Company, Frost's primary American publisher, and in the establishing of Frost's Favorable reviews on both sides of the Atlantic resulted in American A Boy's Will was accepted by a London publisher and brought out in 1913, followed a year later by His efforts to establish himself and his work were almost In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himselfĮntirely to writing. (purchased for him by his paternal grandfather), and supplemented his income by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. Ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. In 1894 he sold "Myīutterfly: an Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. In 1892 and entered Dartmouth College, where he remained less than one semester.įrost returned to Massachusetts where he taught school and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School The Frost family moved to Massachusetts in 1885, following Frost's father's death. Leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Robert Lee Frost (born Main San Francisco, Calif., died Januin Boston Mass.), was one of America's
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