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    North of Boston
    North of Boston
    North of Boston
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    North of Boston

    By Robert Frost

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    Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this volume we look further at the works of the eminent American writer Robert Frost.

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    Release dateAug 20, 2013
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    Robert Frost

    Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet. Born in San Francisco, Frost moved with his family to Lawrence, Massachusetts following the death of his father, a teacher and editor. There, he attended Lawrence High School and went on to study for a brief time at Dartmouth College before returning home to work as a teacher, factory worker, and newspaper delivery person. Certain of his calling as a poet, Frost sold his first poem in 1894, embarking on a career that would earn him acclaim and honor unlike any American poet before or since. Before his paternal grandfather’s death, he purchased a farm in Derry, New Hampshire for Robert and his wife Elinor. For the next decade, Frost worked on the farm while writing poetry in the mornings before returning to teaching once more. In 1912, having moved to England, Frost published A Boy’s Will, his first book of poems. Through the next several years, he wrote and published poetry while befriending such writers as Edward Thomas and Ezra Pound. In 1915, after publishing North of Boston (1914) in London, Frost returned to the United States to settle on another farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he continued writing and teaching and began lecturing. Over the next several decades, Frost published numerous collections of poems, including New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1924) and Collected Poems (1931), winning a total of four Pulitzer Prizes and establishing his reputation as the foremost American poet of his generation.

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      North of Boston - Robert Frost

      Robert Frost – North of Boston

      Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage.  In this volume we look further at the works of the eminent American writer Robert Frost.

      Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26th 1874 in San Francisco, California. His first few years were spent in the City until with the death of his father on May 5, 1885 the family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts to be with Robert’s grandfather; William Frost, Sr.

      Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892 after publishing his first poem in his high school's magazine.   He then attended the prestigious Dartmouth College for two months, gaining acceptance to the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and then returned home, first to teach and then rather more menial jobs including delivering newspapers, and working in a light bulb factory.

      In 1894 he sold his first poem, My Butterfly. An Elegy (published November 8, 1894) for $15. Proud of his accomplishment, he proposed marriage to Elinor Miriam White, but she demurred. Frost then went on an excursion to the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and asked Elinor again upon his return. Having graduated, she agreed, and they were married at Lawrence, Massachusetts on December 19, 1895.

      Frost attended Harvard University from 1897–1899, but he left due to illness. Shortly before dying, Robert's grandfather purchased a farm for Robert and Elinor in Derry, New Hampshire; and Robert worked the farm for nine years, while writing many of the poems that would later become famous. Ultimately his farming proved unsuccessful and he returned to the field of education as an English teacher at New Hampshire's Pinkerton Academy from 1906 to 1911 and then the New Hampshire Normal School.

      In 1912 Frost sailed with his family to Great Britain, to settle in Beaconsfield, just outside London. His first book of poetry, ‘A Boy's Will’, was published in 1913 and the following year ‘North of Boston’.

      With the advent of the Great War Frost returned to America in 1915 and bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire and launched a career of writing, teaching and lecturing.  During the years 1916–20, 1923–24, and 1927–1938, Frost taught English at Amherst College in Massachusetts, notably encouraging his students to account for the myriad sounds and intonations of the spoken English language in their writing.

      In 1924, he won the first of four Pulitzer Prizes for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. Further Pulitzers were received for ‘Collected Poems’ in 1931, ‘A Further Range’ in 1937, and ‘A Witness Tree’ in 1943.

      Between 1921 and 1963 Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont.

      In 1940 he bought a 5 acre plot in South Miami, Florida, naming it Pencil Pines; he spent his winters there for the rest of his life.

      Although he never graduated from college, Frost received over 40 honorary degrees, including ones from Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge universities, and was the only person to receive two honorary degrees from Dartmouth College.

      In 1960, he received the United States Congressional Gold Medal.  At age 86 when he read his well-known poem The Gift Outright at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961.

      Robert Frost died from complications following prostate surgery on January 29th, 1963.  He is buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont.

      Wild Grapes And Other Selected Poetry, Mountain Interval and A Boy’s Will are also available in the Robert Frost series.

      Index of Poems

      The Pasture

      Mending Wall

      The Death of the Hired Man

      The Mountain

      A Hundred Collars

      Home Burial

      The Black Cottage

      Blueberries

      A Servant to Servants

      After Apple Picking

      The Code

      The Generations of Men

      The Housekeeper

      The Fear

      The Self-seeker

      The Wood-pile

      Good Hours

      Robert Frost – A Short Biography

      The Pasture

      I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;

      I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away

      (And wait to watch the water clear, I may):

      I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too.

      I’m going out to fetch the little calf

      That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,

      It totters when she licks it with her tongue.

      I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too.

      Mending Wall

      Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

      That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,

      And spills the upper boulders in the sun;

      And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

      The work of hunters is another thing:

      I have come after them and made repair

      Where they have left not one stone on a stone,

      But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,

      To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,

      No one has seen them made or heard them made,

      But at spring mending-time we find them there.

      I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;

      And on a day we meet to walk the line

      And set the wall between us once again.

      We keep the wall between us as we go.

      To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

      And some are loaves and some so nearly balls

      We have to use a spell to make them balance:

      Stay where you are until our backs are turned!

      We wear our fingers rough with handling them.

      Oh, just another kind of out-door game,

      One on a side. It comes to little more:

      There where it is we do not need the wall:

      He is all pine and

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