Robert Frost - Amherst, MA
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A statue of famous American poet Robert Frost is located on the campus of Amherst College in Amherst, MA.
Waymark Code: WMMB9Y
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/25/2014
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Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874. In 1885, his family moved to Lawrence, MA and HE later attended Dartmouth College in NH and Harvard University in MA. He went to England and there his first two volumes of poems were published: A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914). At the start of World War I he returned to a family farm in Franconia, NH, where he wrote, taught and lectured. From 1916–20, 1923–24, and 1927–1938 he was a professor of English at Amherst College, MA.
During his writing career he was awarded the Pulitzer Prizes four times: in 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes, 1931 for Collected Poems, 1937 for A Further Range, and 1943 for A Witness Tree. In 1960, he received the United States Congressional Gold Medal: "In recognition of his poetry which enabled the culture of the United States and the philosophy of the world."
A stone statue depicts a larger-than-life likeness of Robert Frost seated on a pile of boulders with his right leg higher than his left. The sculpture is resting on a 4' square granite base. Robert Frost is wearing a jacket, trousers and a shirt opened at the collar. He is holding a book at waist level with both hands. The sculpture was created by Penelope Jenks and was installed on the campus of Amherst College in 2007. A ground level plaque is inscribed:
ROBERT FROST
AMHERST TEACHER AND POET
TO HONOR GENERATIONS
OF AMHERST COLLEGE FACULTY WHO,
AS FROST SAID OF ENDURING POEMS,
"REACH THE EYE, THE EAR, AND WHAT WE
MAY CALL THE HEART OR THE MIND"
GIFT OF THE CLASS OF 1957
AT ITS 50TH REUNION