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A Short Biography of Robert Frost

Author Name:

Robert Frost

Born As:

Robert Lee Frost

Other Names:

Robert Lee Frost

Born:

26 Mar 1874

Died:

29 Jan 1963




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Selected works:

Poems:

After Apple-Picking
Acquainted with the Night
The Aim Was Song
An Old Man's Winter Night
The Armful
Asking for Roses
The Bear
Bereft
Birches
The Black Cottage
Bond and Free
A Boundless Moment
A Brook in the City
But Outer Space
Choose Something Like a Star
A Cliff Dwelling
The Code
Come In
A Considerable Speck
The Cow in Apple-Time
The Death of the Hired Man
Dedication
The Demiurge's Laugh
Devotion
Departmental
Desert Places
Design
Directive
A Dream Pang
Dust of Snow
The Egg and the Machine
Evening in a Sugar Orchard
The Exposed Nest
The Fear
Fire and Ice - 1916
Fireflies in the Garden
The Flower Boat
Flower-Gathering
For Once, Then Something
Fragmentary Blue
Gathering Leaves
The Generations of Men
Ghost House
The Gift Outright
A Girl's Garden
Going for Water
Good Hours
Good-bye, and Keep Cold
The Gum-Gatherer
A Hundred Collars
Hannibal
The Hill Wife
Home Burial
Hyla Brook
In a Disused Graveyard
In a Poem
In Hardwood Groves
In Neglect
In White - Frost's Early Version of "Design"
Into My Own
A Late Walk
Leaves Compared with Flowers
The Line-Gang
A Line-Storm Song
The Lockless Door
Love and a Question
Lure of the West
Meeting and Passing
Mending Wall
A Minor Bird
The Mountain
Mowing
My Butterfly
My November Guest
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
Neither Out Far Nor in Deep
Never Again Would Bird's Song Be the Same
Not to Keep
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Now Close the Windows
October
On a Tree Fallen across the Road
On Looking up by Chance at the Constellations
Once by the Pacific - 1916
One Step Backward Taken
Out, Out- - 1916
The Oven Bird
Pan With Us
A Patch of Old Snow
The Pasture
Plowmen
A Prayer in Spring
Provide, Provide
Putting in the Seed
Quandary
A Question
Range-Finding
Reluctance
Revelation
The Road Not Taken
The Road That Lost its Reason
The Rose Family
Rose Pogonias
The Runaway
The Secret Sits
The Self-Seeker
A Servant to Servants
The Silken Tent
A Soldier
The Sound of the Trees
The Span of Life
Spring Pools
The Star-Splitter
Stars
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Storm Fear
The Telephone
They Were Welcome to Their Belief
A Time to Talk
To E.T.
To Earthward
To the Thawing Wind
Tree at My Window
The Trial by Existence
The Tuft of Flowers
Two Look at Two
Two Tramps in Mud Time
The Vanishing Red
The Vantage Point
War Thoughts at Home
What Fifty Said
The Witch of Coös
The Wood-Pile

Poetry collections:

North of Boston - David Nutt, 1914; Holt, 1914
Mending Wall
Mountain Interval - Holt, 1916
The Road Not Taken
Selected Poems - Holt, 1923
Includes poems from first three volumes and the poem The Runaway
New Hampshire - Holt, 1923; Grant Richards, 1924
Several Short Poems - Holt, 1924
Selected Poems - Holt, 1928
West-Running Brook - Holt, 1928? 1929
The Lovely Shall Be Choosers - Random House, 1929
Collected Poems of Robert Frost - Holt, 1930; Longmans, Green, 1930
The Lone Striker - Knopf, 1933
Selected Poems: Third Edition - Holt, 1934
Three Poems - Baker Library, Dartmouth College, 1935
The Gold Hesperidee - Bibliophile Press, 1935
From Snow to Snow - Holt, 1936
A Further Range - Holt, 1936; Cape, 1937
Collected Poems of Robert Frost - Holt, 1939; Longmans, Green, 1939
A Witness Tree - Holt, 1942; Cape, 1943
Come In, and Other Poems - 1943
Steeple Bush - Holt, 1947
Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949 - Holt, 1949; Cape, 1951
Hard Not To Be King - House of Books, 1951
Aforesaid - Holt, 1954
A Remembrance Collection of New Poems - Holt, 1959
You Come Too - Holt, 1959; Bodley Head, 1964
In the Clearing - Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1962
The Poetry of Robert Frost - New York, 1969
A Further Range - published as Further Range in 1926, as New Poems by Holt, 1936; Cape, 1937
Nothing Gold Can Stay
What Fifty Said
Fire And Ice
A Drumlin Woodchuck
Plays
A Way Out: A One Act Play - Harbor Press, 1929.
The Cow's in the Corn: A One Act Irish Play in Rhyme - Slide Mountain Press, 1929.
A Masque of Reason - Holt, 1945.
A Masque of Mercy - Holt, 1947.
Prose
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer - Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963; Cape, 1964.
Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship, by Margaret Bartlett Anderson - Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963.
Selected Letters of Robert Frost - Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964.
Interviews with Robert Frost - Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966; Cape, 1967.
Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost - State University of New York Press, 1972.
Robert Frost and Sidney Cox: Forty Years of Friendship - University Press of New England, 1981.
The Notebooks of Robert Frost, edited by Robert Faggen - Harvard University Press, January 2007

Published as:

Collected Poems, Prose and Plays - Richard Poirier, ed. - Library of America, 1995.                                              
Mother Isabelle Moodie
Father William Prescott Frost, Jr.
Wife Elinor Miriam White, six children, 
Son Elliot 1896-1904 died of cholera, 
daughter Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899-1983), 
son Carol (1902-1940, committed suicide), 
daughter Irma (1903-1967), 
daughter Marjorie (1905-1934, died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth and daughter Elinor Bettina, died three days after birth in 1907.                                              
Pulitzer Prizes:

New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes - 1924 
Collected Poems - 11931
A Further Range - 1937
A Witness Tree - 1943