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自考《英美文学选读》（美）现代文学时期（3 ）-2 Ⅱ。 Robert Lee Frost (l874-l963) 一。 一般识记 His life and writing ： Frost is an important poet in the 20th century .He won the Pulitzer Prize four times and read poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. He spent his early childhood in the Far West and later the family moved to New Hampshire. He went to Harvard but left in the middle because of his tuberculosis. When he was 28， he began to venture on writing. 二。 识记 His major works ： His first book A Boy’s Will (1913) ， whose lyrics trace a boy’s development from self-centered idealism to maturity， is marked by an intense but restrained emotion and the characteristic flavor of New Eng1and life. His second book ， a volume of poems North of Boston (1914)， is described by the author as “a book of people ，” which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background that formed it. Many of his major poems are collected in this volume ，such as “Mending the Wall，” in which Frost saw man as learning from nature the zones of his own 1imitations ， and “Home Buria1 ，” which probes the darker corners of individual lives in a situation where man cannot accept the facts of his condition. Mountain Interval (19l6) contains such characteristic poems as “The Road Not Taken，” “Birches”. New Hampshire (1923) that won Frost the first of four Pulitzer Prizes includes “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”， which stems from the ambiguity of the speaker’s choice between safety and the unknown. The collection West-Running Brook (1928) poses disturbing uncertainties about man’s prowess and importance. Collected Poems (l930) and A Further Range (1935) gathered Frost’s second and third Pulitzer Prizes. Both translate modern upheaval into poetic materia1 the poet could skillfully control. Frost’s fourth