Selected Poems by Robert Frost (Illustrated): Poetry from A Boy's Will, North of Boston and Mountain Interval

by Robert Frost

This beautifully produced book contains the complete contents of Robert Frost's first three volumes of A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval.

Selected Poems by Robert Frost includes almost 100 of Frost's most famous poems, such as “Mending Wall”, “The Road Not Taken” and “The Death of the Hired Man”.

It will be a valued addition to any home library, with astonishing original artwork to complement some of these classic masterpieces.

Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2022

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

[Nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am just not a poetry fan.

[Luis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Robert Frost es un poeta con el que llevaba muchos años familiarizado. "The Death of the Hired Man" fue un texto al que me acerqué de manera muy académica, y ya desde entonces, el estilo me había parecido interesante. Un poema que parece más teatro que a lo que estamos acostumbrados cuando escuchamos el término. En esta compilación, además de poder revisitar esa pieza, descubrí y entendí mejor a Frost, y me llevo de este libro una gran serie de trabajos que me han resonado mucho. Es asombrosa la forma en la que te puede envolver en un escenario tan específico con tan pocas palabras; aquí se hallan poemas que reflejan esa última frontera entre lo rural y lo citadino a inicios del siglo XX. Recurriendo a palabras tan naturistas, los poemas nos llevan a lugares que se sienten familiares y acogedores, pero en varios de estos fragmentos, también se presentan como peligrosos y ajenos.

Si algo me encanta de Frost es la manera en la que logra entretejer tantos temas. Hay poemas de añoranza por la niñez, hay poemas que reflejan el abuso laboral, y sobre encima de todos esos, hay poemas existencialistas donde los bosques, la nieve y las tormentas son el escenario perfecto para lograr coronarse con aires de trascendencia. En cualquier caso, me alegra que a raíz de esta compilación, busqué en internet más poesía del autor. Me parece criminal que no está incluido "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", ya que no solo es de sus poemas más icónicos, sino que se volvió en uno de mis favoritos de todos los tiempos.

Definitivamente es un escritor al que regresaré una y otra vez. Su estilo (aunque no siempre me logró conmover), me pareció muy interesante y reflexivo. Muy recomendado como para recomendar a personas que no están tan familiarizadas con la poesía.