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Robert Frost is born is San Fransisco
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Robert Frost
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Frost attends Darmouth College for two months
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Frost's first poem is published - "My Butterfly. An Elegy"
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Frost married Elinor Miriam White in Massachusetts
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Frost purchases his grandfather's farm. Frost produced many famous poems here.
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Frost is an English teacher at New Hampshire Normal School (now Plymouth State University) in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
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Frost and family sail to Great Britain. Produces his first book of poetry. Meets Ezra Pound.
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In 1924, he won the first of four Pulitzer Prizes for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.
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Collected Poems in 1931 earns Frost second Pulitzer Prize
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A Further Range in 1937 earns Frost his third Pulitzer Prize
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A Witness Tree in 1943 earns Frost his fourth Pulitzer Prize
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Frost was 86 when he performed a reading of his well-known poem "The Gift Outright" at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961.
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Frost dies on January 29, 1963, of complications from prostate surgery. He was buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont. His epitaph quotes a line from one of his poems: "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
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Harvard's 1965 alumni directory indicates Frost received an honorary degree there. Although he never graduated from college, Frost received over 40 honorary degrees, including ones from Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge universities; and was the only person
