Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) was born in San Francisco, studied at Dartmouth College and Harvard but never graduated; he worked in a mill, as a teacher and a farmer until 1912 when he moved to England for three years where he published his first volume of poems, A Boys Will.
He served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1958 and read his poem A Gift Outright at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.
His poems, such as "Stopping By Woods On A Sunday Evening," "Mending Wall," and "The Death of a Hired Man" are marked by naturalist qualities, a New England setting, and the language of the common man.
