Robert Frost (1874-1963) was born in San Francisco and lived there until the age of eleven, when his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He attended high school in Lawrence and continued his education at Dartmouth College, where he remained for only one term, and later at Harvard University, where he studied for two years without taking a degree. Frost worked a succession of odd jobs and as a teacher before publishing his first book of poetry, A Boy's Will (1913). Frost’s poetry uses familiar subjects, especially the natural world and people engaged in recognizable activities. His language is accessible and thoughts are expressed with apparent simplicity. Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes during his career, but never the Nobel Prize, which made him bitter. He was also the first poet to read his work at a presidential inauguration, in 1961 for John F. Kennedy.

Major works of poetry by Frost

Frost and the Web

Here's a great start page from the Academy of American Poets. It includes a photo, a bio, a bibliography, links to poems, and other links.

Here are links to four volumes of Frost’s poetry in etext: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, and Miscellaneous Poems to 1920.

Interested in using the WWW to research Frost? The New York Times has put together a great guide for studying the poet online. (Free registration required.)