Robert Frost

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Robert Frost emerges here not simply as a poet, but as the latest, most restless heir to a long New England line shaped by settlers, soldiers, merchants, and civic duty. From English and Scandinavian roots to colonial Maine and New Hampshire, the Frost family is portrayed as sturdy, conservative, and bound to the land—until Robert's own life begins to break that pattern, carrying forward both his mother Isabelle Moody's thrift and sensitivity and his father William Prescott Frost's recklessness, wit, and self-destructive glamour. Born in San Francisco and brought back east after his father's death, Frost grows into a sharp, observant young man whose friendship and marriage to Elinor White become central to his development, alongside early dreams, reading, and poems that reveal a serious artistic calling. The book follows his difficult path through farming, teaching, labor, and frustration in Derry, New Hampshire, where the harsh landscape and failing farm sharpen his discipline and deepen his art. At last, he commits himself to poetry, goes to England, wins Ezra Pound's support, publishes A Boy's Will and North of Boston, and returns to America just as critical recognition finally arrives. His story becomes one of endurance, vocation, and the making of a major American voice.