FROST, ROBERT ), American poet, was born in San Francisco (Calif.), March 26, 1875. His father was a New Englander and his mother was born in Edinburgh. In 1885 he moved with his parents to Lawrence (Mass.), studied in the public schools, and entered Dartmouth college in 1892, remaining there one year. In 1897-99 he was a student at Harvard, and from 1905 to 1911 taught English in the Pinkerton academy, Derry (N.H.), and then for a year taught psychology at the New Hampshire Normal school at Plymouth. In 1912 he went to England, where he remained three years and published his first two volumes of verse. On his return to America he retired to a farm at Derry and gave much time to active farming. Dur ing 1916-20 he was professor of English at A.nherst college (Mass.), a position which he resumed 1923-25 after an interval spent as poet in residence at the University of Michigan. Later he became fellow in letters at Michigan. His poems portray realistically, yet with a fine reticence, everyday country life in New England, his work as a whole partaking of the dignity and serene beauty of the hills among which much of his life has been passed. Some of the work of his first volume had been denied publication for 20 years, and some of the second for ten years. He is the author of A Boy's Will (London, 1913; New York, 1915) ; North of Boston (London, 1914; New York, 1915) ; Mountain Interval OW); A Way Out, a play (1917) ; New Hampshire (1923). Selected Poems appeared in 1923, Westrun ning Brook, in 1928 and A Lone Striker, in 1933; see G. B. Mun son, Robert Frost (1927).