The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged

Robert Frost

Macmillan, 1979 - Poetry - 607 pages

A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers

No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes.

Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers.

The only comprehensive volume of Frost's verse available, comprising all eleven volumes of his poems, this collection has been the standard Frost compendium since its first publication in 1969.

Contents

• THE PASTURE: 1
• LOVE AND A QUESTION: 7
• ROSE POGONIAS: 13
• REVELATION: 19
• CHRISTMAS TREES: 105
• THE TELEPHONE: 118
• A TIME TO TALK: 124
• NEW HAMPSHIRE: 159
• A STAR IN A STONEBOAT: 172
• MAPLE: 179
• THE AXHELVE: 185
• PAULS WIFE: 191
• PLACE FOR A THIRD: 199
• THE PAUPER WITCH OF GRAFTON: 207
• WILL SING YOU ONEO: 217
• THE RUNAWAY: 223
• SPRING POOLS: 245
• ATMOSPHERE: 246
• SAND DUNES: 260
• A LONE STRIKER: 273
• A BLUE RIBBON AT AMESBURY: 279
• IN TIME OF CLOUDBURST: 285
• THE FIGURE IN THE DOORWAY: 292
• A LEAFTREADER: 297
• AFTERFLAKES: 303
• BEECH: 331
• A YOUNG BIRCH: 375
• TOO ANXIOUS FOR RIVERS: 379
• A MOOD APART: 385
• A ROGERS GROUP: 391
• TAKE SOMETHING LIKE A STAR: 403
• KITTY HAWK: 428
• AUSPEX: 443
• OUR DOOM TO BLOOM: 449
• LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION: 462
• A REFLEX: 468
• A MASQUE OF REASON: 473
• A MASQUE OF MERCY: 493
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TEXTUAL NOTES: 525

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: The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged; A Holt paperback; Owl book
• Author: Robert Frost
• Editor: Edward Connery Lathem
• Contributor: Edward Connery Lathem
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1979
• ISBN: 0805069860, 9780805069860
• Length: 607 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / American / General; Poetry / General