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Robert Lee Frost

Male : Poet & author, especially of the New England rural scene. He married his childhood sweetheart, Elinor White in 1895, but of their children - one died young, one committed suicide and one ended up in an institution. Frost moved to England in 1912 and stayed for 3 years.
Nationality : American Place of Birth : San Francisco

Date of Birth : 1874 Date of Death : 1963 Age : 87

Other Work : Prof of Poetry at Harvard

Education : Lawrence HS, Massachusetts, Dartmouth College & Harvard
All US Editions by Holt unless stated
1894-1920
(Twilight) Five Poems (1894)
A Boy's Will
(1913 David Nutt, UK) (1915 Holt, NY)
North of Boston
(1914 D Nutt, UK) (1914)
Mountain Interval
(1916)

1921-1930
New Hampshire : A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
(1923) - J J Lankes. PULITZER PRIZE
Selected Poems
(1923 Heinemann)
West-Running Brook
(1928)
The Lovely Shall be Choosers
(1929 Random House) - 475
A Way Out : One-Act Play
(1929 Harbor Press, NY)
The Cow's in the Corn
(1929) - Play
Collected Poems
(1930 Random House) (1930 Longman)

1931-1940
Two Letters
(1931)
The Lone Striker
(1933 Knopf)
(In) The Best Poems of 1935 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1935 Cape)
The Golden Hesperides
(1935)
Book Six : A Further Range
(1936) (1937 Cape)
From Snow to Snow
(1936)
Selected Poems
(1936 Cape) - intro essay by W H Auden
Collected Poems
(1939)
A Considerable Speck
(1939)

1941-1950
A Witness Tree
(1942 Spiral Press - 735 signed) (1943 Cape)
Come In & Other Poems
(1943)
A Masque of Reason
(1945) - 800 signed (1948 Cape)
The Courage to be New
(1946)
Poems
(1946)
Steeple Bush
(1947)
A Masque of Mercy
(1947 Holt) - 751
The Complete Poems
(1949) (1951 Cape)
The Complete Poems
(1950 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols. 1500 signed. T W Nason

1951-1960
Hard Not to be King
(1951 House of Books)
One More Bevity
(1953)
Birches
(1953 Ayer Press)
Aforesaid
(1954)
Selected Poems
(1955 Penguin)
New Hampshire : A Poem
(1955 Dresden Press, New Hampshire)
Kitty Hawk
(1956)
My Objection to Being Stepped On
(1957 PP, Spiral, NY)
Away
(1958) - Stefan Mantia
A Wishing Well
(1959 Blumenthal NY) - T W Mason
Accidentally on Purpose
(1960 Spiral Press)

1961 Onwards
Dedication : The Gift Outright
(1961)
Six Poems
(1961 NY) - with Carl Sandburg
The Prophets Really Prophesy as Mystics...
(1962 Ann & Joseph Blumenthal, NY)
In the Clearing
(1962 Holt, Rinehart & Winston) (1962 Holt UK)
Frost and John Bartlett : The Record of a Friendship
(1963) - Edited by M B Anderson
Letters to Louis Untermeyer
(1963)
Frost : Farm-Poultryman
(1963) - Edited by E C Lathem & L Thompson
Selected Letters
(1964)
Frost : Life and Talks-Walking
(1965) - Edited by Louis Mertins
Selected Prose
(1966)
Interviews with Frost
(1967) - Edited by E C Lathem
The Poetry of Robert Frost
(1969) (1971 Cape)
One Favored Acorn
(1969 Middlebury College)
Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost
(1972) - Edited by Arnold Grade
Frost on Writing
(1973) - Edited by Elaine Barry
A Time to Talk
(1973) - Edited by Robert Francis
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Death of the Hired Man
After Apple-Picking
Collected Poems, Prose & Plays
(1996 Library of America $35)

READING
W B S Clymer & C R Green : Robert Frost - A Bibliography
(1937 Amherst, Mass)
Lawrance Thompson : Robert Frost
(1966-76) - 3 vols
James L Potter : The Robert Frost Handbook
(1981 Penn State UP £9)
William H Pritchard : Frost - A Literary Life
(1985 OUP £14.95)
Jeffrey Meyers : Robert Frost - A Biography
(1996 Constable £20)
Jay Parini : Robert Frost - A Life
(1999 Heinemann £20)