His first two books of verse, A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), were immediate successes. Frost was farming in Derry, New Hampshire when, at the age of 38, he sold the farm, uprooted his family and moved to England, where he devoted himself to his poetry. Flinty, moody, plainspoken and deep, Robert Frost was one of America's most popular 20th-century poets.