Bibliography of Robert Frost
...ional and universal. Robert’s father died in 1885 when Robert was eleven years old. The family left California and moved to Massachusetts. After high school he attended Dartmouth College, but was there for less than a semester. He worked in a mill, he taught school, and was a newspaper reporter. ( http://www.Robertfrost.org/bio.html) Frost sold “My Butterfly: An Elegy” to the Independent, a New York journal. A year later he married a woman who shared valedictorian honors with at high school, her names was Elinor white. He attended Harvard College from 1897-1899 as a special student but left without receiving a degree. Over the next ten years he operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, wrote poetry but rarely published them, and taught at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, at age thirty-eight, he took all his money and moved his family to England so he could devote himself to his writing. His efforts were almost immediately successful. A London publisher accepted A Boy’s Will and brought it out is 1913. Good reviews raved in both America and England. The outstanding reviews in America resulted in the publication of his books by Henry Holt and ...