Don't Know Much About Robert Frost

"I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

While contemplating the death of J.D. Salinger, it is worth remembering that another New England transplant, Robert Frost , died on this date January 29 in 1963. He had written his own epitaph, the words above, etched on his headstone in a church cemetery in Bennington, VT.

Apples, birches, hayfields and stone walls; simple features like these make up the landscape of four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost's poetry. Known as a poet of New...