A Boys Will

many of these poems would eventually see publication and make him famous.

New York Independent.

Frost attempted college for a second time, attending Harvard University for two years from 1897-99,

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never achieving more income than was necessary to merely subsist.

Frost sold his first poem, ‘My Butterfly, an elegy’ in 1894 for $15 ($400 today)

ROBERT FROST – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

was largely unrecognised as a writer for almost the first forty years of his life, though he wrote consistently throughout.

Surging, the grasses dizzied me of thought,

The breeze three odors brought,