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: WMMB66
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 depicting Robert Frost seated on a pile of boulders holding a book, by Penelope Jenks, was placed 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
Wikipedia lists the following publications by Robert Frost.
Poetry collections
A Boy's Will (David Nutt 1913;Holt, 1915)[25]
North of Boston (David Nutt, 1914; Holt, 1914)
"Birches"
"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, The Poetry Quartos, printed and illustrated by Paul Johnston (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)
"The Silken Tent"
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)
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 books
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).
Letters
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1, 1886–1921, edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, and Robert Faggen (Harvard University Press; 2014); 811 pages; first volume of the scholarly edition of the poet's correspondence, including many previously unpublished letters.
Omnibus volumes
Collected Poems, Prose and Plays (Richard Poirier, ed.) (Library of America, 1995) ISBN 978-1-883011-06-2.
Spoken word
Robert Frost Reads His Poetry, Caedmon Records, 1957, TC1060
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