Complete Works of Robert Frost: Collection of Poems, Prose & Plays – Timeless American Poetry, Nature, Rural Life, Reflections, and Classics from a Beloved Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet

by Robert Frost

Explore the brilliance of Robert Frost, America's most celebrated poets in this comprehensive collection. From his iconic poems like The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Mending Wall to his insightful prose and dramatic plays, this volume offers a profound journey through rural life, nature, love, loss, and human reflection.



Frost's masterful command of language and his deep philosophical themes have earned him four Pulitzer Prizes and a lasting place in literary history. This collection is ideal for students, poetry lovers, and collectors, featuring all his published poems along with lesser-known prose and theatrical pieces.



Whether you're discovering Robert Frost for the first time or returning to revisit his timeless verse, this book is a treasured volume for any library.

Genres: Poetry, Classics, Literature

744 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 4, 2025

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

[Grady]

Breathing again – the timeless influence of Robert Frost

Poet extraordinaire Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) has become an integral part of our lives, especially those of us who continue to write poetry as well as those who turn to his works for moments of quiet introspection. In this compendium his entire output is shared, allowing acquaintance with his works that might otherwise have gone neglected.

An example of a lesser-known poem will hopefully inspire others to explore the contents of this book;

IN A VALE

When I was young, we dwelt in a vale/ By a misty fen that rang all night,/ And thus it was the maidens pale/ I knew so well, whose garments trail/ Across the reeds to a window light./ The fen had every kind of bloom,/ And for every kind there was a face,/ And a voice that has sounded in my room/ Across the sill from the outer gloom./ Each came singly unto her place,/ But all came every night with the mist:/ And often they brought so much to say/ Of things of moment to which, the wist,/ One so lonely was fain to list,/ That the stars were almost faded away/ Before the last went heavy with dew,/ Back to the place from which she came - / Where the bird was before it flew,/ Where the flower was before ii grew,/ Where bird and flower were one and the same./ And thus it is I know so well/ Why the flower has odor, the bird has song./ You have only to ask me, and I can tell./ No, not vainly there did I dwell,/ Nor vainly listen all night long.

Having chosen a poem I do not remember from childhood, instead of one of his well-known and oft quoted verses, this excerpt from the works of Robert Frost will hopefully guide other to visit – and enjoy. Recommended

[Tony Sciarra]

I only read his poems.