Product Description

A treasury of Frost’s most expressive verse. "An Old Man’s Winter Night," "In the Home Stretch," "Meeting and Passing," "Putting in the Seed," many more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5031 in Books
• Published on: 1993-04-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Review
Birches
Bond And Free
The Bonfire
Brown's Descent, Or, The Willy-nilly Slide
Christmas Trees
The Cow In Apple Time
An Encounter
The Exposed Nest
A Girl's Garden
The Gum Gatherer
The Hill Wife: House Fear
The Hill Wife: Loneliness
The Hill Wife: The Impulse
The Hill Wife: The Oft-repeated Dream
The Hill Wife: The Smile
Hyla Brook
In The Home Stretch
The Line-gang
Meeting And Passing
An Old Man's Winter Night
'out, Out -'
The Oven Bird
A Patch Of Old Snow
Pea Brush
Range-finding
The Road Not Taken
Snow
The Sound Of The Trees
The Telephone
A Time To Talk
The Vanishing Red
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Customer Reviews

Clean cold lines of New England poems
These early poems of Frost ( 1916) already display his characteristically clear and cold lines, his fine delineations of Nature, his moral meanings. "Two roads diverged in a wood- and I / I took the one less traveled by/ and that has made all the difference.
Frost was a tremendously ambitious and hardworking poet, who some biographers have accused of sacrificing life and family to art. His poetry has a stark beauty about it, the beauty of the birches he devotes a major poem to.
This collection lacks many of his major poems , but nonetheless gives the feeling and flavor truly of a major American poet.

Five stars for the price
This collection of Robert Frost poems is a clear 5 star for the low price. Dover consistently provides great literature at an extremely low price. Despite the great bargain, you may want to spend more and purchase a book of Frost's complete poerty. Although this book has a nice selection, some of his greatest poems are missing from this collection, notably "Mending Wall" and "Fire and Ice." Still, if you just want a few selected poems to carry you back to another era into a New England woods on a snowy evening you can't go wrong here.

The Essence of a Moment � Poetry by Frost
Frost, like no other poet, captures a moment that we all have experienced at one time in life. He paints a picture with such vivid strokes of literary imagery that the mind brings the reader back to a moment in time, almost feeling the sensations of past experiences.

For example, I recently made a decision where I was torn between family and career interests. To ease the anxiety of a lost professional opportunity, I reasoned that the chance would present itself again someday, maybe. Thinking of Frost I realized that he captured that very self-rationalization in the Road Not Taken. "Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back."

As others have pointed out already, the largest drawback of the book is lack of thickness. Even though one of my all-time favorites, "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening," is not present, others like "An Old Man's Winter Night" make up for it. If you need a small book to stick in a backpack while hiking for moments of inspiration while on the trail, you could do worse than to carry along a little bit of Frost.