Robert Frost
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His first professional poem, "My Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent.
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In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry until her death in 1938.
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Frost met and was influenced by such contemporary British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work.
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1915, he had published two full-length collections, A Boy's Will and North of Boston,
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Though his work is principally associated with the life and landscape of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics who remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic movements and fashions of his time,
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The author of searching and often dark meditations on universal themes, he is a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological complexity of his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is infused with layers of ambiguity and irony.
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In a 1970 review of The Poetry of Robert Frost, the poet Daniel Hoffman describes Frost's early work as "the Puritan ethic turned astonishingly lyrical and enabled to say out loud the sources of its own delight in the world,"
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nd a great performer in the tradition of that earlier master of the literary vernacular, Mark Twain."
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About Frost, President John F. Kennedy said, "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding."
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on 2008-02-21 by whiteknoll