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Robert Frost
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born
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frosts father died
After his death on May 5, 1885, the family moved across the country to Lawrence, Massachusetts. -
Frost sells his first poem
In 1894 he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly. An Elegy" (published in the November 8, 1894. -
Got married
before they married. Frost then went on an excursion to the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and asked Elinor again upon his return. Having graduated, she agreed, and they were married at Lawrence, Massachusetts on December 19, 1895. -
attended Harvard University
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Left Harvard University
he left voluntarily due to illness. -
Beacame a teacher in New hamshire
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left new hamshire
he returned to the field of education as an English teacher at New Hampshire's Pinkerton Academy from 1906 to 1911, then at the New Hampshire Normal School (now Plymouth State University) in Plymouth, New Hampshire. -
sails to britain with his family
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Returned to America
where Holt's American edition of A Boy's Will had recently been published. -
teaches at Bread Loaf School of English
For forty-two years — from 1921 to 1963 — Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont. -
won first prize
he won the first of four Pulitzer Prizes for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. -
Returned to teach
returned to teach at Amherst. While teaching at the University of Michigan, he was awarded a lifetime appointment at the University as a Fellow in Letters -
Daughter marjorie dies
daughter Marjorie (1905–1934, died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth -
Bought a 5 acre plot
he bought a 5-acre (2.0 ha) plot in South Miami, Florida -
1947. Frost's wife, Elinor, also experienced bouts of depression.
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congress gold medal
Frost was named Poet laureate of Vermont. -
past away
January 29, 1963, of complications from prostate surgery. He was buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont. His epitaph quotes the last line from his poem, "The Lesson for Today (1942): "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
