| Accomplishments of Robert Frost | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robert Frost has received more honors than any other contemporary literary figure in America (Thompson, Robert Frost 9). His personal success and the feats that he has been able to accomplish during his lifetime are what make Robert Frost so extraordinary. Below is a compiled list of his career and lifetime achievements. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Awards | Honors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Graduated as valedictorian and class poet - 1892 (Thompson, Robert Frost 7) Phi Beta Kappa Poet (Contemporary Authors) Elected to membership in the National Institue of Arts and Letters - 1916 (Thompson, Robert Frost 9) Elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters - 1930 (9) Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard, 1936 (Contemporary Authors) Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellow, 1939 (Contemporary Authors) Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1958 (Bloom 169) Member of the American Philosophical Society (Contemporary Authors) Honorary degrees from 44 colleges and universities, including Oxford and Cambridge (Thompson, Robert Frost 9) Invited to participate in the inauguration ceremonies of John F. Kennedy (9) Traveled on "good-will missions" per request of the State Department (American National Biography 518) Poet Laureate of Vermont (Contemporary Authors) Mountain named after him in Ripton, Vermont (Contemporary Authors) |
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| - Pulitzer Prize four times - Golden Rose Trophy, New England Poetry Club, 1928 - Russell Loines Prize for poetry, 1931 - Mark Twain medal, 1937 - Gold Medal for Poetry, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1939 - Gold Medal of the Poetry Society of America, 1941 & 1958 - Gold Medal, Limited Editions Club, 1949 - American Academy of Poets Award, 1953 - Medal of Honor, New York University, 1956 - Huntington Hartford Foundation Award, 1958 - Emerson-Thoreau Medal, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1958 - Congressional Gold Medal, 1962 - Edward MacDowell Medal, 1962 - Bollingen Prize for Poetry, 1963 List compiled from Contemporary Authors - First Annual Poetry Award, Boston Arts Festival, 1954 - Medal for Distinguished Service in the Fields of American Literature, Theodore Roosevelt Society, 1954 - Gold Medal, Holland Society of New York, 1957 - Gold Medal for DIstinguished Service, Poetry Society of America, 1958 List compiled from www.frostfriends.org |
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| Selected Poems | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Published Books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - Aquainted With The Night - After Apple Picking - Birches - Fire and Ice - Home Burial - Mending Wall - Mowing - Nothing Gold Can Stay - Once By The Pacific - Out, Out - Reluctance - Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening - Death of a Hired Man - The Pasture - The Road Not Taken - The Rose Family |
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| - A Boy's Will, 1913 (Thompson, Robert Frost 8) - North of Boston, 1914 (8) - Mountain Interval, 1916 (12) - Selected Poems, 1923 (45) - New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, 1923 (13) - West-running Brook, 1928 (14) - Collected Poems, 1930 (45) - A Further Range, 1936 (14) - A Witness Tree, 1942 (14) - A Masque of Reason, 1945 (14) - Steeple Bush, 1947 (14) - A Masque of Mercy, 1947 (14) - Complete Poems, 1949 (14) - In the Clearing, 1962 (15) |
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