Robert Frost

North of Boston Robert Frost

Like his first book, A Boy's Will (1913), Robert Frost's second, North of Boston, was first published in England. Despite that irony, it was, and remains, the book that connects the name Robert Frost with America's New England. Frost began writing poetry in the 1890's while running a small farm in Derry, New Hampshire, but he found few publications that would accept his work. By the time he took his family to England in 1912, he had published a handful of poems in magazines and newspapers. He was a virtually unknown poet approaching the age of forty.