Frost
With a Colt pistol pointed dead at the doctor, threatening to shoot if anything happened to his expecting wife, a very erratic William Frost welcomed his son Robert Lee Frost into the world in San Francisco California on March 26, 1874. Frost was named part after his grandfather and after the defeated Civil war general Lee. Thinking that he was the product of a premarital mistake, Robert tried to hide it by saying he was born a year after, in 1875.In the beginning, William was happy with his son, but as his health began to spoil and he took to the bottle. William felt very burdened with his family and would constantly abuse them. Robert, through all the torment and abuse, stuck close to his mother who tried to make up for her husbands abuse by pampering her son. After the death of his father from tuberculosis, Frost's mother, Isabelle, moved Robert and his sister Jeanie to Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 1892, Robert graduated with honors from his high school and was valedictorian along with Elinor White, which was his high s
In the bookstores of England, a Boston poet named Amy Lowell discovered Frost's poems and started a crusade to find an American publisher for Frost while writing her own review of North of Boston. Back in the US, Lowell's review of North of Boston had been published and finally an the American publishing house of Henry Holt published North of Boston in the U.S. and later released A Boy's Will. With many successes and awards from every corner of literature, Frost read his poem "The Gift Outright" at president John F. Kennedy's inauguration and even received the Congressional Gold Medal from Kennedy on his 80th birthday in 1962. In 1915, with the outbreak of World War I, Frost returned to the United States and bought a farm at Franconia, New Hampshire. Once again the farming and writing was not able to support his family so he started teaching part-time at Amherst College and the University of Michigan from 1916-1938. In 1916, Frost published Mountain Interval, which was extremely successful and enhanced his career. He then
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