Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. His father was William Frost, a Harvard graduate who was on his way westward when he stopped to teach at Bucknell Academy in Pennsylvania for extra money. His mother, Isabelle Moodie began teaching math at Bucknell while William was there, and they got married and moved to San Francisco. They were constantly changing houses, and William went from job to job as a journalist. About a year after moving to San Francisco, they had Robert. They named him Robert Lee Frost, after William\'s childhood hero, Robert E. Lee. Frost\'s father died from tuberculosis at age thirty-four, in 1885. Isabelle

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

Had worn them really about the same,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

And having perhaps the better claim

Critics now began to speak of his New England connections as being less constraining; happily, he was not as limited as had been feared, but could speak of life from a more universal vantage point. The image of Robert Frost as a national poet, as opposed to a regional figure, began to emerge more clearly (Gerber, 154-155). Frost received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times (1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943) and became the first poet to read a poem at the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy. Frost continued to produce at a steady, unspectacular rate. His work found its way readily in periodicals. There was no trouble about being acceptable, only about filling the demand. From 1917 it could be said that no anthology of modern American verse could make even a pretense of completeness if it omitted Robert Frost (Gerber, 32-33).

I took the one less traveled by,

took Robert and his sister back east to Massachusetts. Soon they moved to Salem, New Hampshire, where there was a teaching opening. Robert began to go to school and sit in on his mother’s classes. He soon learned to love language, and eventually went to Lawrence High School, where he wrote the words to the school hymn, and graduated as co-valedictorian. Frost was then sent to Dartmouth College by his controlling grandfather, who saw it as the proper place for him to train to become a businessman. Frost read even more in college, and learned that he loved poetry. In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm his father had passed to him and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. His efforts to establish himself and his work were almost immediately successful. A Boy\'s Will was accepted by a London publisher and brought out in 1913, followed a year later by North of Boston. Favorable reviews on both sides of the Atlantic resulted in American publication of the books by Henry Holt and Company, Frost\'s primary American publisher, and in the establishing of Frost\'s transatlantic reputation.

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