Frost says at the time that he's publishing A Boy's Will, to a friend: You mustn't take me too seriously if I now proceed to brag a bit about my exploits as a poet.

他在发表第一本书时对一个朋友说：,不要对我太认真,如果我现在吹嘘自己已是一位诗人。

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And when we go to the title page of A Boy's Will we see that this New England poet publishes his first book, in fact, in London in 1913, there on New Oxford Street.

当我们看到“少年的意志“这个题目时,我们知道他在新英格兰发表这第一本书时，实际上是1913年在新牛津街。

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