WE KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE POET ROBERT FROST, BUT WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE POET’S DAD, ROBERT FROST? BY THE WAY, WAS NOT BORN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, BUT HIS FATHER, HIS DAD WAS WILLIAM PRESCOTT FROST.

The archetypal farmer-poet of New England grew up in San Francisco to a pro-Confederate father who named his son after his ...

Robert Marquand wrote that Frost “did have a dark side. He faced personal tragedy. His father died early; his sister became insane; his son committed suicide, and two other children died young. The ...