AMERICAN POET DIES

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 13

AMERICAN POET DIES

Robert Frost Was 88

(NX. Press Asm.—Copyright) BOSTON, January 29. Robert Frost, the uncrowned poet laureate of the United States, died early today, aged 88. Mr Frost, who won the Pulitzer Prize for literature four times, died In Boaton’s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Mr Frost entered the hospital on December 3 and underwent an operation seven days later for the removal of a urinary obstruction. Later he had a heart attack and blood dote settled in his tonga Fame came late in the life of Robert Frost, a rugged, non-conforming former millworker, fanner and preacher. But at the age of 86, be stood in the glare of a national spotlight when he was invited by President Kennedy to read a poem ait his inauguration.

Standing oa the platform, with a March wind tousling his thatch of white hair and a blinding sun in his eyes, Mr Frost discarded a script he could not read and recited from memory his 20-yeer-old poem “The Gift Outright” Mr Frost already had served as a consultant in poety to the Library of Congress, and on his eightyeighth birthday, he received from President Kennedy a medal voted by Congress. Not since toe days of Longfellow had an American poet won such universal acclaim.

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