Robert Frost

A Boy's Will (1913) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Published in London and dedicated to the poet's wife, Elinor, A Boy's Will, which received enthusiastic early reviews from both Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats, launched Frost's career as America's leading poet of the early-twentieth century. Invoking such figures as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, and Thomas Hardy, Frost ties himself to tradition while establishing...

"Amid the snow-covered woods, a young woman takes in the silent, overwhelming beauty of the natural world around her, all the while knowing that she has miles yet to travel on that dark, frosty night"--

West-Running Brook by Robert Frost is an exquisite collection of poetry that encapsulates the essence of early 20th-century American literature. This masterpiece by Frost, first published in 1928, offers a profound exploration of nature, human experience, and the intricate interplay between them. Each poem in this collection is a testament to Frost's unparalleled ability to weave words into emotionally resonant and thought-provoking imagery. In...

"When a fork in the road arises for the boy, so too does the first of life's many choices. And as the poem progresses, so does the boy's life: college, career, marriage, family, loss, and, by journey's end, the sweet satisfaction of a life fully lived."-- adapted from book jacket

Time out -- Time out; To a moth seen in winter; A considerable speck (microscopic); The lost follower; November; The rabbit hunter; A loose mountain (telescopic); It is almost the year two thousand -- Quantula -- In a poem; On our sympathy with the under dog; A question; Boeotian; The secret sits; An equalizer; A semi-revolution; Assurance; An answer -- Over back -- Trespass; A nature note; Of the stones of the place; Not of school age; A serious...

An offer from a city man to buy the trees on his land awakens ina country fellow a keener awareness of the value of both his trees and his friends at Christmas.

These deceptively simple lines from the title poem of this collection suggest Robert Frost at his most representative: the language is simple, clear and colloquial, yet dense with meaning and wider significance. Drawing upon everyday incidents, common situations and rural imagery, Frost fashioned poetry of great lyrical beauty and potent symbolism. Now a selection of the best of his early works is available in this volume, originally published in...

Selected Poems (1923) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Dedicated to Edward Thomas, a friend of Frost's and an important English poet who died toward the end of the First World War, Selected Poems is a wonderful sampling of poems from Frost's early collections, including A Boy's Will and North of Boston. Known for his plainspoken language and dedication to the images and rhythms of rural New England, Robert Frost is one of America's...

A feast for lovers of American literature, the work of our greatest poet. 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. Prior to Frost's death, 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...

This collection brings together all the major poetry, a generous selection of uncollected poems, all of Frost's dramatic writing, and an extensive gathering of his prose writings.