Robert Lee Frost

Robert Lee Frost is one of the most distinguished American poets in history. He was of English descent and is a Californian, born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He came from the bloodline of the early settlers of the US and his father was also a writer like himself, who was an editor at the San Francisco Bulletin. He first attended college at Dartmouth College, where he would write his first poem for the school’s magazine. Later on, he would sell his first poem to the New York Independent and would continue his studies at Harvard University. Afterward, he would make a move to England to embark on his prolific writing career.

Frost is given credit for his great mastery of the American colloquial speech, and his writings would earn him four Pulitzer awards. Before his passing at the age of 88 in 1963, he instructed that the phrase, “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world,” be engraved on his tombstone. It is a phrase taken out of his 1941 poem A Lesson For Today.