New England Pocket Anthology of Robert Frost's Poems

by Robert Frost

Unknown Binding

About the author

Flinty, moody, plainspoken and deep, Robert Frost was one of America's most popular 20th-century poets. Frost was farming in Derry, New Hampshire when, at the age of 38, he sold the farm, uprooted his family and moved to England, where he devoted himself to his poetry. His first two books of verse, A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), were immediate successes. In 1915 he returned to the United States and continued to write while living in New Hampshire and then Vermont. His pastoral images of apple trees and stone fences -- along with his solitary, man-of-few-words poetic voice -- helped define the modern image of rural New England. Frost's poems include "Mending Wall" ("Good fences make good neighbors"), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ("Whose woods these are I think I know"), and perhaps his most famous work, "The Road Not Taken" ("Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- / I took the one less traveled by"). Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times: in 1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943. He also served as "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress" from 1958-59; that position was renamed as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (or simply Poet Laureate) in 1986.

Frost recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at the 1961 inauguration of John F. Kennedy... Frost attended both Dartmouth College and Harvard, but did not graduate from either school... Frost preferred traditional rhyme and meter in poetry; his famous dismissal of free verse was, "I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."

Reviews

[Estee Hull · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my reading goals this year was to read some more poetry. I went to the library and stumbled across this Robert Frost book and I thought “Eh, why not”.

Before I read this book, I only knew of his arguably most famous poem “The Road Not Taken” and I was surprised by the rest of his works.

I love Frost’s connection with nature in his poems and the storytelling they all share. His rhyme schemes are also unique, to me anyways. When I have read poetry in the past sometimes the rhyme scheme will take me out of it, but somehow Frost does it in a way that just adds to the poetry.

I also love the imagery within his poems and how I can see it so clearly in my head even when there are very few words.

I recommend Robert Frost to all of you and I definitely will be reading more of his works in the future!