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Poetry Of Robert Frost: The Life Of Robert Frost: 1874 - 1963

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Frost, Robert

Frost, Robert
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Life Of Robert Frost: 1874 - 1963

Childhood: 1874 - 1885:

The career of Robert Frost is full of surprises. The first is that this
most typical of Yankees is a native Californian. He was born in San Francisco
and spent his first eleven years there, during the exciting era of gold and
pioneering. William Prescott Frost, Jr., his father, followed the waves of
westward-moving New Englanders that swept into the frontier lands to seek
their fortunes. The elder Frost was the son of a cotton-mill boss in Lawrence,
Massachusetts, one of the many cloth-spinning ...

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