Photograph by Lawrence Willard, 1955

Robert and Elinor Frost at Plymouth, New Hampshire, 1911

 

 

The Frost children at Plymouth, New Hampshire1911. (Lesley, Carol, Marjorie, Irma)

Family photos courtesy of Lesley Lee Francis

Frost in Franconia, N. H. 1915

Photo Courtesy of Jones Library, Amherst

Photograph c. 1936 by A. Allyn Bishop, Newport, Vermont

Gift of Elizabeth Nutter to FoRF

 

Robert Frost - A Chronology

Frost's chronology has been divided into categories below

based on significant aspects of his life. Click on the categories:

 

Personal Family Life	Publication of Works
Honors, Awards and Degrees	Academic Career

 

 

 

Personal Family Life

Date

Event

3-26-74 Birth of Robert Lee Frost, San Francisco, Cal. 6-25-76 Birth of Jeanie Frost (sister) 5-5-1885 Death of father, Will Frost, in San Francisco. Family returns to Lawrence, Mass. for burial. Sept, 1888 Robert enters Lawrence High School May, 1890 Robert writes his first poem La Noche Triste June, 1892 Robert graduates from Lawrence High School sharing valedictorian honors with Elinor White. Sept., 1892 Enters Dartmouth. Leaves before end of term. 1893 - 1894 Teaches in local schools. Works in the mills. 11-8-94 First poem published: "My Butterfly: An Elegy" 1895 Works as a reporter, teaches school. 12-19-95 Marries Elinor Miriam White in Lawrence. 9-25-96 First child, Elliott, born to Rob and Elinor. Sept., 1897 Enters Harvard University. 3-31-1899 Leaves Harvard. Returns to Lawrence. 4-28-1899 Second child, daughter Lesley born. 7-8-1900 First child, Elliott dies. Oct., 1900 Frost family moves to farm, Derry, N. H. 11-2-1900 Frost's mother, Isabelle, dies of cancer. 5-27-1902 Third child, son Carol born. 6-27-1903 Fourth child, daughter Irma born. 3-29-1905 Fifth child, daughter Marjorie born. 6-18-1907 Sixth child, Elinor Bettina born -dies within days. 11-16-1911 Sells Derry Farm. Lives in Plymouth, N. H. and teaches at N. H. State Normal School. Sept., 1912 The Frost family sails for England. 10-26-1912 First book of poetry accepted by publisher. 5-15-1914 Second book published 2-13-1915 The Frost family returns to the U. S. Buys farm in Franconia, N. H. Oct., 1920 Moves to Shaftsbury, Vermont, buys the Stone House. Dec., 1928 Buys second farm, The Gulley in Shaftsbury. 9-7-1929 Sister Jeanie, dies. 5-2-1934 Daughter Marjorie dies following childbirth. 3-20-1938 Wife, Elinor dies of a heart attack in Florida. Summer, 1938 Frost rents apartment in Boston. Sept., 1939 Frost buys The Homer Noble Farm, Ripton, Vt to use as a summer residence. Oct 9, 1940 Son Carol dies of suicide in Shaftsbury. Spring, 1941 Frost buys home in Cambridge, Mass 1-29-1963 Frost dies in Boston. Burial in Bennington

 

 

Publication of Works

Date	Title of Work

 

April, 1913 May, 1914 Feb, 1915 April, 1915 Nov, 1916 Mar, 1923 Nov, 1923 Nov, 1928 Nov, 1930 May, 1936 Feb, 1939 April, 1942 Mar, 1945 May, 1947 Sept, 1947 April, 1949 Mar, 1962

A Boy's Will, English edition North of Boston, English edition North of Boston, American edition A Boy's Will, American edition Mountain Interval Selected Poems New Hampshire West-running Brook Collected Poems A Further Range Collected Poems A Witness Tree A Masque of Reason Steeple Bush A Masque of Mercy Complete Poems In the Clearing

 

 

Honors

Awards

Degrees

High School: Co-Valedictorian & Hood Prize for Scholastic Excellence   Phi Beta Kappa Poet: Tufts, 1915 Harvard, 1916 Columbia, 1932 Tufts, 1940 Harvard, 1941 College of William and Mary, 1941     Member National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1916   Member American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1930   Hon. Member St. Botolph Club, Boston, 1932   Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Harvard 1936   Member American Philosophical Society, 1937   Board of Overseers, Harvard College, 1938   Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellow in Poetry, Harvard 1939   Associate of Adams House, Harvard Univ. 1939.   Life appointment, Simpson Lecturer in Literature. Amherst, 1949   Consultant in Poetry in the Library of Congress 1958-59.   Inaugural Poet for President John F. Kennedy, 1961   Poet Laureate of Vermont, 1961

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in the following years: 1923 New Hampshire 1931 Collected Poems 1937 A Further Range 1943 A Witness Tree   Russell Loines Poetry Prize, 1931   Gold Medal for Poetry, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1939   Gold Medal, Poetry Society of America, 1941.   Gold Medal, Limited Editions Club, 1949   Award, Academy of American Poets, 1953   First Annual Poetry Award, Boston Arts Festival, 1954   Medal for Distinguished Service in the Fields of Am. Literature, Theodore Roosevelt Society, 1954   Medal of Honor, New York University 1956   Gold Medal, Holland Society of New York, 1957   Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, Poetry Society of America, 1958   Medal for Achievements in the Arts, Signet Society, Harvard College, 1958   Emerson-Thoreau Medal, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1958   Huntington Hartford Foundation Award, 1958   Congressional Gold Medal, 1960   Edward MacDowell Medal, 1962   Congressional Medal presented by Pres. J. F. Kennedy, 1962   Bollingen Prize in Poetry, 1963

Honorary Degrees   M. A. Amherst, 1918 M. A.University of Michigan.1922 L.H.D. University of Vermont 1923 Litt. D. Middlebury College 1924 Litt. D. Yale 1924 Litt D. Bowdoin 1926 Litt D. University of New Hampshire 1930 L.H.D. Wesleyan 1931 Litt. D. Columbia 1932 L.H.D. Williams 1932 Litt. D. Dartmouth 1933 L.H.D. St. Lawrence University, 1936 L.H.D. University of Pennsylvania 1936 L.H.D. Bates, 1936 Litt D. Harvard, 1937 L.H.D. University of Colorado, 1939 Litt. D. Princeton 1941 Litt. D. Kenyon College, 1945 LL. D. Univ of California, 1947 Litt. D. Duke, 1948 Litt. D. Amherst, 1948 Litt. D. Colgate, 1950 Litt. D. Marlboro 1950 Litt. D. Univ. of Durham, England 1951 Litt. D. Univ. of Massachusetts 1951 Litt. D. Univ. of North Carolina, 1953 LL. D. Univ. of Cincinnati, 1954 LL. D., Dartmouth, 1955 Litt. D. University of Rhode Island, 1955 LL. D., Colby College, 1956 Litt. D., Oxford Univ., Cambridge Univ., National University, Ireland and Ohio State University, 1957 L.H.D. Miami Univ., 1959 Litt. D., Syracuse University, 1959 Litt. D., Tufts University, 1959 LL. D., University of Florida, 1960 L.H.D., Hebrew Union College, 1960 LL. D. University of Miami, 1961 Litt. D., Windham College, 1961 Litt. D., Boston University, 1961 LL. D. University of Michigan, 1962 L.H.D., University of Detroit, 1962