Robert Frost’s parents, William Prescott Frost Jr. and Isabelle Moodie Frost, moved to San Francisco, California in 1873 to pursue a journalism job for William. Robert Frost was born the next year, on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. Frost’s younger sister, Jeanie, was born in 1876. Robert was in and out of elementary school for years. Robert would enroll and …show more content…
Tragedy struck once again when Frost’s daughter Marjorie died after giving birth in the late 1920s and Frost’s beloved wife, Elinor, died of heart failure in 1938. Although mourning the loss of a daughter and wife, Frost continued to gain fame. Frost received the Pulitzer prize for four of his books: New Hampshire (1923); Collected Poems (1930); A Further Range (1936); and A Witness Tree (1942). In 1940, Frost went through another tough time when Frost’s son, Carol, committed suicide. Seven years later, Frost’s daughter Irma was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with mental illness. Frost had to push through and focus on the positives in life, Frost couldn’t let these tragedies destroy his …show more content…
One review of The Poetry of Robert Frost by poet Daniel Hoffman stated, “The Puritan ethic turned astonishingly lyrical and enabled to say out loud the sources of its own delight in the world.” Daniel Hoffman also stated, “He became a national celebrity our nearly official poet laureate, and a great performer in the tradition of that earlier master of the literary vernacular Mark Twain.” regarding Frost’s career. Even President John F. Kennedy raved about Frost, saying “He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and