Robert Frost

Robert Frost was a four-time Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, a teacher, and a lecturer. He was born in 1874, San Fransisco, and became interested in reading and writing while he was in highschool. After several different jobs, his first professional poem was published in 1894, titled "My Butterfly", in the New York newspaper The Independent. One of Frost's major inspirations for writing his poetry was his wife, Elinor. When they moved to England, Frost became influenced by contempoary British poets such as Edward Thomas and Robert Graces. He also became friends with Ezra Pound who helped publish and promote his work. Some of his most famous works consist of:

-A Boy's Will (1913)
-North of Boston (1914)
-Mountain Interval (1916)
-New Hampshire (1923)
-West-Running Brook (1928)
-The Lovely Shall Be Choosers (1929)
-The Lone Striker (1933)
-From Snow to Snow (1936)
-A Further Range (1936)
-A Witness Tree (1942)
-Come In, and Other Poems (1943)
-Masque of Reason (1945)
-Steeple Bush (1947)
-Hard Not to be King (1951)

A poet named Daniel Hoffman describes Frost's early work as "the Puritan ethic turned astonishingly lyrical and enabled to say out loud the sources of its own delight in the world," and comments on Frost's career as The American Bard: "He became a national celebrity, our nearly official Poet Laureate, and a great performer in the tradition of that earlier master of the literary vernacular, Mark Twain."

John F. Kennedy once said that "[Frost]...has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding."

Information from http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192.