A gorgeously illustrated gift edition of Robert Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, featuring some of his most famous works such as “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost is one of America’s most celebrated poets. Known for pastoral imagery and deep themes, Frost has an unparalleled legacy as the quintessential New England poet.
A celebration of Frost’s beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning work, New Hampshire, this deluxe edition features a cloth cover, a ribbon marker, and stunning sprayed edges. Original art brings this work to vibrant life and gives readers new ways to engage with Frost’s seminal poems, including “Fire and Ice,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Evening in Sugar Orchid,” and “The Need of being Versed in Country Things.”
The collection also includes a foreword from renowned Frost biographer, Adam Plunkett. A must-have, gorgeously packaged edition of a timeless classic, New Hampshire is the perfect gift for poetry lovers, students, and book collectors.
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."