MarkKelleher

By MarkKelleher

The Road Less Travelled By.

This title is a reference to the poem by Robert Frost 'The Road Not Taken' which starts 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood'.

Born in San Francisco, Frost came to England in 1912, and had his first book of poems 'A Boy's Will' published in England a year later.

Frost met and became friends with the poet Edward Thomas, and after he returned to America in 1915, he sent Thomas an early copy of The Road Not Taken before it was published a year later in the US.

Frost taught English in Massachusetts and Michigan, and in rural Vermont at the Bread Loaf School of English every summer for 40 years.

He famously read his poem The Gift Outright at the inauguration of JFK in January 1961.

"I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. "

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