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Died. Robert Lee Frost, 88, poet; of a pulmonary embolism; in Boston (see BOOKS...
...face might have been carved out of a Vermont hillside (and may yet be carved into one). No man seemed more natively American. "The death of Robert Frost leaves a vacancy in the American spirit," said President Kennedy. But ironically, Robert Frost was 40 years old, with his life nearly half over, before the people of the U.S. recognized him as a poet, and then they learned it from the British. For those 40 years, he was an isolated man. isolated physically on a bleak farm in New-England, isolated poetically as he slowly worked out his grindstone-plain style...
...Frost was born in San Francisco, Calif., March 26, 1874, but, after the death of his father, he moved to Lawrence, Mass., with his mother and sister in 1885. He was co-valedictorian of Lawrence High School in 1890 with Elinor Miriam White, whom he later married...
...Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for New Hampshire in 1924. Other of his Pulitzer-Prize winners included Collected Poems, in 1931, A Further Range, in 1937 and A Witness Tree...
...Frost has often lectured at Harvard and other colleges; his most recent visit here was a surprise appearance last October before a Humanities 6 class. He said once that he liked visiting colleges. He didn't, he explained, "know a better place for a poet to hang around for two or three years...