--- title: Robert Frost: Photos of an American Poet in England description: LIFE.com pays tribute to the great American poet Robert Frost with a series of photos made in England in 1957. canonical: https://time.com/3746441/robert-frost-an-american-poet-revisits-old-haunts-in-england/ author: Ben Cosgrove article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-25T18:27:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:02.825Z og:title: Robert Frost: Photos of an American Poet in England og:description: LIFE.com pays tribute to the great American poet Robert Frost with a series of photos made in England in 1957. og:url: https://time.com/3746441/robert-frost-an-american-poet-revisits-old-haunts-in-england/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c1a03a6f95ee462/698783c23c16397409452476/150316-robert-frost-10.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Robert Frost in England og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Robert Frost: Photos of an American Poet in England twitter:description: LIFE.com pays tribute to the great American poet Robert Frost with a series of photos made in England in 1957. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c1a03a6f95ee462/698783c23c16397409452476/150316-robert-frost-10.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Robert Frost: An American Poet Revisits Old Haunts in England by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Mar 25, 2014 6:27 PM UTC  Robert Frost in an English meadow, 1957. Robert Frost in an English meadow, 1957.Howard Sochurek—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Mar 25, 2014 6:27 PM UTC Even in America, where poetry is largely looked upon as an elitist indulgence rather than a cultural force to be reckoned with, [Robert Frost’s works](http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192) — or parts of his works — are familiar to vast numbers of people. They might not know that the words were first penned by the Bard of New England, but men and women who haven’t cracked a volume of poetry in decades still recognize Frost’s most memorable lines and, above all, his inimitable images: _The woods are lovely, dark and deep,_ _But I have promises to keep,_ _And miles to go before I sleep,_ _And miles to go before I sleep._ — From “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” _He will not go behind his father’s saying,_ _And he likes having thought of it so well_ _He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”_ — From “Mending Wall” Then there’s the famously short, sharp “Fire and Ice,” first published in December 1920: _Some say the world will end in fire,_ _Some say in ice._ _From what I’ve tasted of desire_ _I hold with those who favor fire._ _But if it had to perish twice,_ _I think I know enough of hate_ _To say that for destruction ice_ _Is also great_ _And would suffice._ Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry — one of a very small handful of writers to have won so many — and remains, a full half-century after his death in 1963, one of the most celebrated and popular American literary voices of the 20th century. Here, LIFE.com pays tribute to the man (b. March 26, 1874, in San Francisco) and the artist with a series of photos made by Howard Sochurek in England in 1957. --- > “” --- Frost’s life was marked by enormous loss: only two of his and his wife Elinor’s six children outlived him. Elinor died in 1938\. Frost himself suffered from depression, as did several other members of his family. And yet he left behind a body of work as clear-eyed and as uplifting as that of any American writer before him, or since.harp  Caption from LIFE. In an English field where 'Surging, the grasses dizzied me of thought' (from 'My Butterfly'), Mr. Frost recalls another day. Howard Sochurek—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Under 'the thick old thatch, Where summer birds had been given hatch' (from 'The Thatch'), Frost looks from cottage in Dymock where his friend, poet Wilfrid Gibson, lived in 1914 Howard Sochurek—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Malvern Hills, in England, where Robert Frost once lived. Howard Sochurek—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Frost, who once wrote, 'I never heard of a house that throve . . . where the chimney started above the stove,' examines stove of his old kitchen at Little Iddens, Gloucestershire. Howard Sochurek—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Malvern Hills, England, where Robert Frost once lived. Howard Sochurek—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Nature lover Frost, who once farmed 'a pasture where the boulders lie As touching as a basket full of eggs,' stoops suddenly in English pasture to grasp stone and throw it. Howard Sochurek—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Past the tree which could have been model for his 'Tree at my window, window tree . . . ' Frost gazes sadly in direction of cottage, now in ruins, where he wrote it. Howard Sochurek—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Malvern Hills, where Robert Frost once lived. Howard Sochurek—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Robert Frost in 1957, during a visit to the English countryside where he once lived. Howard Sochurek—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Robert Frost in an English meadow, 1957. 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