USPS 100th Birth Anniversary of American Poet Robert Frost

USPS on 23 August 1970 issued the first stamp in the American Poet Series honouring Edgar Lee Masters. Over the decade, stamps dedicated to Emily Dickinson, Sidney Lanier, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg,  Edna St. Vincent Millay and Robert Frost followed.

In 1974, the US Post Office honoured Robert Frost.  The stamp was released on his 100th birthday – 26 March 1974 – in Derry, New Hampshire, where Frost lived for nine years and produced some of his best-loved poems.  The graceful, plain-language poems were inspired by New England’s beauty, landscapes, folkways, and speech patterns.  Frost won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times.  He also received a gold medal from Congress and was the first poet to read at a presidential inauguration, that being at the behest of John F. Kennedy in 1961.