Robert Frost

noun

United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)

• Syn: ↑Frost, ↑Robert Lee Frost

• Derivationally related forms: ↑Frostian (for: ↑Frost)

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑poet

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Robert Frost [Robert Frost]

(1874–1963) a US ↑poet who won four ↑Pulitzer Prizes. He is best known for his poems about the countryside. From 1912 to 1915 Frost lived in England where he wrote A Boy’s Will (1913). He then settled in the US state of ↑New Hampshire and wrote about ↑New England. His books of poetry include A Witness Tree (1942) and In the Clearing (1962). His best-known poems are Mending Wall and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. At the age of 87, Frost read his poem A Gift Outright at the 1962 ↑inauguration of John F ↑Kennedy (= the ceremony at which he was formally made President). Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost The Road Not Taken