Hi Bill!

You'd asked why Frost moved to England. Well, today happens to be Frost's Birthday. And I just heard this on the Writer's Almanac. It may answer a few questions at least:

It's the birthday of Robert Frost, born in San Francisco, California (1874). Although he's remembered as a New England poet, he didn't move east until he was eleven, when his father died. His mother supported the family by teaching school. He dropped out of college, married, moved to a farm in New Hampshire, and held a series of odd jobs, writing the whole time. He estimated that his income from poetry amounted to ten dollars a year, and his family was destitute. Then it occurred to him to sell the farm and move to England, where prices were still low after the war. There, his poetry began to receive real attention. He published his first collection, A Boy's Will (1913), to great acclaim when he was thirty-nine, and the following year North of Boston (1914) got even better reviews.