A century before Taylor Swift, Robert Frost was America's most famous poet. Hot on the heels of hits like The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Frost - cultivating the mien of a plainspoken New England farmer - would tour the Ivy circuit, speaking in lecture halls to adoring, tweed-jacket-wearing, standing-room-only crowds about roads, snow, woods, cows, and poetry.