Why is Robert Frost remembered as a great poet?

 

            Robert Frost was nobody in literary circles for the first forty years of his life. The brilliance of Frost came to the fore after his return from England, at the start of World War I. ‘New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes’, won Frost the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1924. Frost went on to win three more Pulitzers. ‘Collected Poems’, ‘A Further Range’, and ‘A Witness Tree’ were his other Pulitzer winning works.

            Frost was famous for his realistic portrayal of rural life, and his ability to use American spoken language in his works.

            Frost was a student at Harvard from 1897 to 1899, but his studies were cut short by illness. ‘My Butterfly, An Elegy’ was his first published poem.

            ‘A Boy’s Will’, his first volume of poetry, appeared in 1913. Robert Frost created many memorable poems such as ‘The Witch of Coos’, ‘Mending Wall’, ‘An Old Man’s Winter Night’, and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’. Frost was born on March 26th, 1874, and died on January 29th, 1963.