Robert FrostRobert Frost (1874-1963) was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century and remains among the most widely read figures in American literature. Although closely associated with rural New England, Frost first achieved major recogition in England, where A Boy's Will appeared in 1913 and North of Boston followed in 1914. The second volume, containing such poems as "Mending Wall," "The Death of the Hired Man," and "Home Burial," secured his reputation and helped define the voice for which he became famous: formal yet conversational, regional yet universal, plainspoken yet philosophically exacting.Frost's poetry draws on farms, fields, roads, stone walls, seasonal labour, and local speech, but its deeper subjects are moral choice, solitude, grief, work, human distance, and the uneasy relation between freedom and obligation. Over the course of his career he received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and became one of the central public literary figures in the United States. His poems continue to be read in schools, libraries, universities, and private collections for their memorable language, dramatic tension, and lasting place in the American canon. Read More Read Less