Education and Early Career After graduating from Lawrence High School, in the year 1892, Robert Frost attended Dartmouth College for … Robert Kennedy was attorney general during his brother John F. Kennedy's administration. She notes that "this sampling of the ways Frost drew on the literature and concepts of the Greek and Roman world at every stage of his life indicates how imbued with it he was". During the years 1917–20, 1923–25, and, on a more informal basis, 1926–1938, Frost taught English at Amherst College in Massachusetts, notably encouraging his students to account for the myriad sounds and intonations of the spoken English language in their writing.

Out of his six children, only two - Lesley and Irma outlived him.

Frost's wife, who had heart problems throughout her life, developed breast cancer in 1937, and died of heart failure in 1938.

The school recognizes him as a major influence for its development and its writing programs. In 1920, Frost's younger sister Jeanie had to be sent to mental asylum, where she succumbed to depression and other mental illness, after 9 years. . Robert Frost, in full Robert Lee Frost, (born March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died January 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts), American poet who was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his command of American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations. Frost taught English at Amherst College, Massachusetts in 1916-1920, 1923-1924 and in They also note that Frost believed that "the self-imposed restrictions of meter in form" was more helpful than harmful because he could focus on the content of his poems instead of concerning himself with creating "innovative" new verse forms. He later “But none of it was good enough for Carol,” Pritchard wrote. Got his first poem ‘My ButterflyAn Elegy’ published. As a special guest at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, Frost became a poetic force and the unofficial "poet laureate" of the United States. [13] He would win additional Pulitzers for Collected Poems in 1931,[14] A Further Range in 1937,[15] and A Witness Tree in 1943. His house burns down, killing his children.

After some years his mother also died, leaving him under the patronage of his grandfather.

. This family habitat served as his summer home until 1938. Frost's father was a teacher and later an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin (which later merged with The San Francisco Examiner), and an unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector. Many of these poems later became extremely popular. Frost was a descendant of Samuel Appleton, one of the early settlers of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Rev.