Robert Frost - Introduction

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1. ROBERT FROST INTRODUCTION by Prof.R.R.Borse , Asst.Prof . & Head, Eng.Dept ., B.P.Arts,S.M.A.Sci.,K.K.C.Comm.College , Chalisgaon [email protected]

2. INTRODUCTION ROBERT FROST BIRTH - 26 MARCH 1874 BORN – San. FRANCISCO (California) DEATH - 29 JAN 1963 Occupation – Poet , Playwright

3. MAJOR WORKS POETRY COLLECTION A Boy’s Will  (David Nutt 1913; Holt, 1915) [50] North of Boston  (David Nutt, 1914; Holt, 1914) " After Apple-Picking " " The Death of the Hired Man " " Mending Wall " Mountain Interval  (Holt, 1916) " Birches " " Out, Out " " The Oven Bird " " The Road Not Taken " Selected Poems  (Holt, 1923) Includes poems from first three volumes and the poem  The Runaway New Hampshire  (Holt, 1923; Grant Richards, 1924) " Fire and Ice " " Nothing Gold Can Stay " " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening "

4. Plays A Way Out: A One Act Play  (Harbor Press, 1929). The Cow's in the Corn: A One Act Irish Play in Rhyme  (Slide Mountain Press, 1929). A Masque of Reason  (Holt, 1945). A Masque of Mercy  (Holt, 1947)

5. THEMES 1. TRUTH 2.HUMANITY 3.NATURE 4.ISOLATION

6. Pulitzer Prizes 1924 for  New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes 1931 for  Collected Poems 1937 for  A Further Range 1943 for  A Witness Tree

7. ABOUT ROBERT FROST Robert Frost was born in  San Francisco, California , to journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie . [2]  His mother was a Scottish immigrant, and his father descended from Nicholas Frost of  Tiverton, Devon , England, who had sailed to  New Hampshire  in 1634 on the  Wolfrana . Frost was a descendant of  Samuel Appleton , one of the early settlers of  Ipswich, Massachusetts , and  Rev. George Phillips , one of the early settlers of  Watertown, Massachusetts . [4]

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