It was there that Frost published his first volumes of poetry. Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New HampshireĪfter selling the farm in Derry, the Frosts left for Great Britain. You can attend readings, lectures, and a poetry conference in the summer, and year-round the grounds are open to exploration - walking alongside Hyla Brook, and wandering the orchard and meeting the subject of Frost’s Mending Wall. May through October, you can tour the white clapboard house where Frost wrote many of the poems in A Boy’s Will and North of Boston. It was there that he found his poetic voice and discovered that he wasn’t much of a poultry farmer. Though he would become Vermont’s poet laureate and the nation’s Pulitzer Prize winner, a teacher at Middlebury College and a snowbird in Florida, the Granite State served as the backdrop for much of his early work.įor 11 years, Frost and his family lived at a small farm in Derry.

In fact, frost didn’t discover rural life until his short-lived attendance at Dartmouth College. His first years were spent in San Francisco, and his adolescence in Lawrence, Mass. Though he came to typify the region, Frost was not born in New England. His work is accessible, exploring complex ideas through scenes and images of rural life. Robert Frost is often praised for the colloquialism of his poetry.