![]() He was also awarded more than 40 honorary degrees across his lifetime, including from Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford Universities. ![]() In 1960, Frost was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal by the United States for his contributions to the field of poetry. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1924 for the collection, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. Three years later he returned to America, where he would spend much of his life teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College (this has since become the site of the famous Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference). In 1912, Frost and his family sailed to England where Frost became involved in the poetry community there he befriended other poets like Ezra Pound, Edward Thomas, T. ![]() ![]() Though he initially grew up in big cities, he was gifted a farm in Derry, New Hampshire by his grandfather, which is where he wrote many of the poems that would make his career. Frost’s distinctive writing style went on to influence later poets including Seamus Heaney, Robert Francis, and James Wright.įrost was born in San Francisco, California but moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts after his father’s death. He is the only poet ever to have been awarded four separate Pulitzer Prizes for poetry. ![]() Frost (1874–1963) was an American poet deeply associated with the rural beauty and traditions of the New England region. ![]()
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