Black Lamb

A Week in Literary History

March 26th, 2001

Much-honored American poet Robert (Lee) Frost (New Hampshire, 1923) is born in San Francisco, 1874.

Robert Frost, b. March 26, 1874, d. 1963

About fifty years ago, Robert Frost had become such a literary icon in America that people didn’t read him anymore, but Frost is not all “Stopping by Woods” or “The Road Not Taken.” His poetry, although often deceptively simple in form (not simple to write, however), is always “lovely, dark and deep,” and it lives up to his own definition: “It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

Suggested Reading A Boy’s Will, 1913. North of Boston, 1914. Mountain Interval, 1916. New Hampshire, 1923. West-running Brook, 1928. A Further Range, 1936. A Witness Tree, 1942. A Masque of Reason, 1945. Steeple Bush, 1947. A Masque of Mercy, 1947. In the Clearing, 1962.

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