ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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 to receive two honorary degrees from Dartmouth College. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works.

Detailed explanation-2: -One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America’s most beloved poets. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his literary works.

Detailed explanation-3: -For forty-two years – from 1921 to 1962 – Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, at its mountain campus at Ripton, Vermont. He is credited with being a major influence upon the development of the school and its writing programs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Frost himself, of course, never received the prize. Nor, for that matter, did Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore or William Carlos Williams, all of whom were alive when Nobels went to Ernest Hemingway (1954), William Faulkner (1949) and Pearl S. Buck (1938).

Detailed explanation-5: -HE WAS NAMED AFTER CONFEDERATE GENERAL ROBERT E. HE WAS A COLLEGE DROPOUT-TWICE OVER. HE MADE $15 FROM THE SALE OF HIS FIRST POEM. EZRA POUND HELPED FROST GAIN A FOLLOWING. HE BELIEVED “THE ROAD NOT TAKEN” WAS VERY MISUNDERSTOOD. HE WAS THE FIRST POET TO READ AT A PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION. More items •27-Jan-2017