robert frost
...ceived a degree. In the following decade Frost wrote many poems, operated a farm and taught at a local academy. The poems he wrote during this time would go on to make up his first published collections. It was also during this time that his wife had given birth to six children. Sadly, two of them died in infancy. However in the fall of 1912 he sold his farm and used the money to travel to England with his family so that he could focus on writing. He was almost instantly successful. In 1913 A Boy’s Will was accepted to be published and a year later so was North of Boston. People on both sides of the world enjoyed his works. This resulted in American Publications as well. In 1915 Frost and his family went back to the United states. The income he received from those books allowed him to buy a farm, place new poems in periodical and publish Mountain Interval, his third book. It also gave him the path to being a long career as a writer, lecturer and teacher. In 1924 he received a Pulitzer Prize for New Hampshire. In 1928 he published West-Running Brook and A Further Range which also won a Pulitzer Prize. While in England, Frost met and was influenced by many literary figures such as F. S. Flint and Ezra Pound. Pound wrote essays and critiques about his work (Roberts p. 891). One important person he met was Edward Thomas. Frost influenced him to write poetry and in turn, Thomas wrote reviews of Frost’s first two books. While many people criticized Frost for simplicity, Thomas praised him for his originality. Thomas refuted critics who lost favor with Frost because of his “poetic conservatism.” Frost’s most harsh criticism occurred after he published A Further Range. Leftist critic Rolfe Humphries said that he [Frost] no longer showed a sympathetic attitude toward his New England characters and that his political views caused him to be sarcastic and irritable ( Winnick). However Frost had become and expert at writing poems with significant meaning and analysis of certain issues and ideas. He had become concerned with things that were deeper. These concerns lead to the one of the last poetic book Frost...