xiggi: I wondered if you meant Robert Frost. Wikipedia tells me that, indeed, he taught at Amherst for a few years, but he taught at Middlebury for 30-some years, and lived and farmed in New Hampshire and then Vermont for most of his life. I’ve never associated him with Amherst.
In general, if you say “Great Poet of Amherst,” there’s only one person people will understand that to mean: Emily Dickinson. She was the granddaughter of the college’s founder, and daughter of its treasurer, and she barely left the town limits during her lifetime. (Her most substantial absence was a a few semesters attending what later became Mount Holyoke, which hardly counts as leaving.)
Robert Frost is a perfectly great poet, whose reputation has survived both his death and his popularity pretty well. But in terms of the Western Canon, he’s a class down from Dickinson, who is truly a Great Poet, really, along with her contemporary and diametrical opposite Walt Whitman, THE Great Poet of the U.S… But I couldn’t think what advice a potential student at a German technical university could take from her. Frost, yes.