His accessible, colloquial blank verse, often flavoured with New England speech patterns, is written with an individual voice and penetrating vision. His poems include Mending Wall ("Something there is that does not love a wall"), The Road Not Taken, and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and are collected in A Boy's Will 1913, North of Boston 1914, New Hampshire 1924 (Pulitzer Prize), Collected Poems 1930 (Pulitzer Prize), A Further Range 1936 (Pulitzer Prize), and A Witness Tree 1942 (Pulitzer Prize). Born in San Francisco, Frost was raised in New England, where he attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University for brief periods. In 1961 he read his "The Gift Outright" at the inauguration of J F Kennedy.
