Quick Facts on Robert Frost

• Full name; Robert Lee Frost
• Born on 26 May, 1874 in San Francisco (California)
• His father William Prescott Frost Junior was a journalist by profession
• His maternal side of the family was of Scottish ancestry
• His father became a teacher later on and eventually ended up as the Editor for San Francisco Evening Bulletin
• He sold his first poem titled “My butterfly” in the year 1894 when he was only 20 years of age
• Studied at Harvard University for 2 years from 1897 till 1899
• More than 40 honorary degrees from across the world were awarded to him even though he never graduated from Harvard
• Robert Frost passed away in the year 1963 at the ripe age of 88

Famous Poems by Robert Frost

Some of Robert Frost’s most famous and popularly read work (in addition to Fire and Ice) includes the following titles:

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• The Road Not Taken (voted America’s favorite poem)
• Mending Wall
• Nothing Gold Can Stay
• Home Burial
• Birches
• The Death of the Hired Man
• After Apple Picking
• Dedication
• Once by the Pacific

All in all, Robert Frost wrote close to 140 poems during his lifetime in addition to the plays that he inked as well.