Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963. Frost was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A poet often associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical meangings transcend any region. Although his verse forms are traditional, he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of …

…Road Not Taken" and "Birches" and the studied "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" further illustrated Frost's ability to join the pastoral and philosophical modes in lyrics of unforgettable beauty. Frost's poetic and political conservatism caused him to lose favor with some literary critics, but his reputation as a major poet is secure. He unquestionably succeeded in realizing his life's ambition: to write "a few poems it will be hard to get rid of."