Robert Frost

Poet Robert Frost

"And you read your Emily Dickinson, and I my Robert Frost." It's no wonder that Robert Frost made it into Simon and Garfunkel's "The Dangling Conversation" and, much later, into an episode of The Simpsons. The only writer so far to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry (for New Hampshire, 1923; Collected Poems, 1930; A Further Range, 1936; and A Witness Tree, 1942), Frost was asked to write a poem for John F. Kennedy's inaugural ceremony in 1961. Unable to see in the bright glare of the sun, he recited a poem he had committed to memory, "The Gift Outright," rather than the one written for the occasion, "Dedication." Frost was born March 26, 1874.

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