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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1960, Frost was awarded a United States Congressional Gold Medal, “In recognition of his poetry, which has enriched the culture of the United States and the philosophy of the world"; it was formally bestowed on him by President Kennedy in March 1962.

Detailed explanation-2: -Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for New Hampshire in 1924. Other of his Pulitzer-Prize winners included Collected Poems, in 1931, A Further Range, in 1937 and A Witness Tree, in 1943.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Notable recipients of the award have included Frost himself, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, and Maxine Kumin.