Biography Of Robert Frost

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School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special
student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but
rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased
for him by his paternal grandfather), and supplemented his income by
teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy.

In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take
his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing.
His efforts to establish himself and his work were almost immediately
successful. A Boy's Will was accepted by a London publisher and brought
out in 1913, followed a year later by North of Boston. Favorable reviews
on both sides of the Atlantic resulted in American publication of the books
by Henry Holt and Company, Frost's primary American publisher, and in the
establishing of Frost's transatlantic reputation.

As part of his determined efforts on his own behalf, Frost had called on
several prominent ...

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