In 1914 North of Boston, the book that would soon bring Frost to public attention, came out in London. In 1923 Frost published his fourth book, New Hampshire, and within months it would win him the first of four Pulitzer Prizes. Opening this fourth volume is a long poem, also titled “New Hampshire,” at once polemical, biographical, and digressive. At its end, Frost declares himself “a plain New Hampshire farmer,” while pointing out a lucrative retainer from his New York publisher and quietly adding that he is now “living in Vermont” (where he has joined a growing community of literary notables). In this talk, Frost scholar David Sanders will consider what in Frost might help us understand the tensions, if not contradictions, involved here. What might help to explain his ongoing attachment to New Hampshire and the values he ascribes to it?