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Robert Frost
===Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. He moved to New England at the age of eleven and received a full education; he eventually enrolled at Dartmouth College and later Harvard but never earned a formal degree.===

===Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence //Sentinel//. His first professional poem was published in 1894, when Frost was just 20, in the New York newspaper //The Independent//.===

===In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple tried farming but when the farm failed in 1912, they moved to England. It was there that Frost met and was influenced by many poets, including [|Ezra Pound], who befriended him and helped to promote and publish his work.===

===When Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had already published two full-length collections and his reputation was established. By the nineteen-twenties, he was the most celebrated poet in America, and with each new book, his fame and honors (including four Pulitzer Prizes) increased.===

===Frost's work is principally associated with the life and landscape of New England. Though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics who remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic movements and fashions of his time, Frost is anything but a merely regional or minor poet. The author of searching and often dark meditations on universal themes, he is a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological complexity of his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is infused with layers of ambiguity and irony.===

===In a 1970 review of //The Poetry of Robert Frost//, the poet [|Daniel Hoffman] comments on Frost's career as The American Bard: "He became a national celebrity, our nearly official Poet Laureate, and a great performer in the tradition of that earlier master of the literary vernacular, Mark Twain."===