A Unit on Robert Frost (1874-1963)

This unit is dedicated to a group of middle school students who want to discover the life of Robert Frost. The resources available here help bring to light his work, his life, and his love of the written word.

The unit includes a link page to other effective and ineffective link pages of Robert Frost. Students should find a wealth of resources here for completing a study unit based on his poetry.

A SUMMARY OF HIS LIFE -

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Robert Frost (1874-1963) was one of America's leading 20th century poets, and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, first child of Isabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr. He was named after a Confederate General - Robert E. Lee!

Frost attended Harvard College from 1897 to 1899. In the ten years following his departure from Harvard, he wrote poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, and taught at Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, he sold his farm and took his family to England, to devote himself to writing. A Boy's Will was published in 1913, followed by North of Boston in 1914. The Frosts moved back to the U.S. in Feb. 1915, following the U.S. publication of North of Boston. His third book, Mountain Interval, was published in 1916. In 1924, Robert Frost received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire. He was honored with the award three more times, for Collected Poems (1931), A Further Range (1937), and A Witness Tree (1943). Some of his most well known poems include: "The Death of the Hired Man" (from North of Boston), "The Road Not Taken" and "Birches" (from Mountain Interval), and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (from New Hampshire).

Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died on January 29, 1963, in Boston.

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Career Highlight (1961): Writes new poem for President John F. Kennedy inauguration, but is unable to read it in glare of bright sunlight and recites only "The Gift Outright."

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Critique's of Robert Frost Sites -

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Critiquing Sites of Robert Frost

Updated: 08 October 2001 - 12:50 PM