Shortly before his death, Frost's grandfather purchased a farm for Robert and Elinor in Derry, New Hampshire Frost worked the farm for nine years while writing early in the mornings and producing many of the poems that would later become famous. Having graduated, she agreed, and they were married at Lawrence, Massachusetts, on December 19, 1895.įrost attended Harvard University from 1897 to 1899, but he left voluntarily due to illness. Frost then went on an excursion to the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and asked Elinor again upon his return. Lawrence University) before they married. Proud of his accomplishment, he proposed marriage to Elinor Miriam White, but she demurred, wanting to finish college (at St. An Elegy" (published in the November 8, 1894, edition of The Independent of New York) for $15 ($470 today). In 1894, he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly. "I had a lover's quarrel with the world", an excerpt from his poem "The Lesson for Today", is the epitaph engraved on Frost's tomb. He said that he did not enjoy these jobs, feeling that his true calling was to write poetry. Frost returned home to teach and to work at various jobs, including helping his mother teach her class of unruly boys, delivering newspapers, and working in a factory maintaining carbon arc lamps. He attended Dartmouth College for two months, long enough to be accepted into the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Frost's mother joined the Swedenborgian church and had him baptized in it, but he left it as an adult.Īlthough known for his later association with rural life, Frost grew up in the city, and he published his first poem in his high school's magazine. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892. After his death on May 5, 1885, the family moved across the country to Lawrence, Massachusetts, under the patronage of Robert's grandfather William Frost Sr., who was an overseer at a New England mill. įrost's father was a teacher and later an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin (which later merged with the San Francisco Examiner), and an unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector.
George Phillips, one of the early English settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. His father was a descendent of Nicholas Frost of Tiverton, Devon, England, who had sailed to New Hampshire in 1634 on the Wolfrana, and his mother was a Scottish immigrant.įrost was also a descendant of Samuel Appleton, one of the early English settlers of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Rev.
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco to journalist William Prescott Frost Jr.
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