and why is he
important?
When Robert Frost died in 1963 at the age of 88, he was America’s most honored poet, loved by both critics and the reading public alike.
He’s the only poet to have won four Pulitzer Prizes, poetry’s highest honor. His poems are read and enjoyed by students all the way from elementary school through college. Among his most frequently read poems are Birches, Mending Wall, Fire and Ice, The Road Not Taken, and Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.
Frost also liked to give talks to audiences that flocked to hear his poems and his insightful and often witty observations about poetry.