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Article: The English years of Robert Frost.(Biography)
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- Contemporary Review
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- June 22, 2008
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'Two roads diverged in a wood and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.'
From 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost
ROBERT Frost (1874-1963) was the most popular American poet of the twentieth century. Millions of volumes of his poems have been sold--collections, selections, illustrated editions, paperback and hardback editions, children's editions. Huge crowds attended his public readings and lectures, buildings were named in his honour, top universities offered him professorships. Frost received America's highest literary award, the Pulitzer Prize, four times; and he received honorary degrees from forty universities. ...