A Swinger of Birches: Poems of Robert Frost for Young People

Robert Frost

Stemmer House, Jan 1, 1982 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 79 pages

Includes poems about birds, trees, flowers, people and land for young people with full colour, full page illustrations. This title is suitable for ages 4-8.

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This is a beautifully illustrated edition of Frost's poems for the young reader.

About the author

Robert Frost, the quintessential poet of New England, was born in San Francisco in 1874. He was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. Although he managed to support himself working solely as a poet for most of his life and holding various posts with a number of universities, as a young man he was employed as a bobbin boy in a mill, a cobbler, a schoolteacher, and a farmer. Frost, whose poetry focuses on natural images of New England, received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times for: New Hampshire, Collected Poems, A Further Range, and A Witness Tree. His works are noted for combining characteristics of both romanticism and modernism. He also wrote A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, and The Gift Outright, among others. Frost married Elinor Miriam White in 1895, and they had six children--Elliott, Lesley, Carol, Irma, Marjorie, and Elinor Bettina. He died in Boston in 1963.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Swinger of Birches: Poems of Robert Frost for Young People; Poetry for Young People Series
• Author: Robert Frost
• Illustrated by: Peter Koeppen
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Stemmer House, 1982
• ISBN: 0916144933, 9780916144937
• Length: 79 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / General