Robert Frost

(1874 - 1963)

As a little-known poet in 1912, Robert Frost at the age of thirty-eight moved his family from New Hampshire to London, hoping to find more receptive publishers. Ezra Pound helped him publish his first volume, A Boy’s Will, in 1913. When he returned to the United States two years later, he found that his second collection, North of Boston, had been a best seller. About the poet’s craft, he once wrote, “For my pleasure I had as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”