# Robert Frost

Author: Munson, Gorham Bert, 1896-1969

Genre: Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78076

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Robert+Frost+Munson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

New England is our association with the name of Frost, and we are no doubt surprised when told that it is a Scandinavian name. Yet there are today many persons in Denmark who hearing this sound uttered behind their backs would turn with that sudden interest aroused by the unexpected pronouncing of one’s name. Certain of the remote ancestors of these Danish Frosts may have roved into England in the ninth century A.D., or it may have been Saxons bearing the name of Forst, which is the Saxon form of Frost, who invaded England in the fifth century A.D. and founded the line of English Frosts. In either case, the Frosts were settled there before the Norman Conquest and the name had begun to acc...

## Chapters

- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/robert-frost-78076/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/robert-frost-78076/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/robert-frost-78076/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/robert-frost-78076/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/robert-frost-78076/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/robert-frost-78076/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/robert-frost-78076/chapters/7/index.md)