Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet? - 3 Quarks Daily

Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet? - 3 Quarks Daily

Jessica Laser in The Paris Review: Though he is most often associated with New England, Robert Frost (1874–1963) was born in San Francisco. He dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, taught school like his mother did before him, and became a farmer, the sleeping-in kind, since he wrote at night. He didn’t publish a book of poems until he was thirty-nine, but went on to win four Pulitzers. By the end of his life, he could fill a stadium for a …