The Road Not Taken: A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems
The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures

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. 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 four Pulitzer Prizes.

Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers.

In this brilliant selection of Frost's classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture.

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The Road Not Taken: A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems
The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures

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. 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 four Pulitzer Prizes.

Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers.

In this brilliant selection of Frost's classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture.

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The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures

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. 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 four Pulitzer Prizes.

Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers.

In this brilliant selection of Frost's classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780805069839
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 04/01/2002
Edition description: Revisedised
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 8.24(w) x 5.38(h) x 0.52(d)
Lexile: NP (what's this?)
Age Range: 5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Robert Frost (1874-1963) is this country's best-loved poet. His work epitomizes the American affinity for plain speaking, nature, and the land. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on four different occasions, and also served as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Table of Contents

A List of Books by Robert Frost

Robert Frost: An Appreciation

The Poet's Invitation: The Pasture

1

The Tuft of Flowers

Blueberries

Home Burial

The Witch of Coös

Paul's Wife

Ghost House

At Woodward's Gardens

The Vindictives

Wild Grapes

The Code

The Bearer of Evil Tidings

The Fear

Snow

2

The Housekeeper

A Hundred Collars

The Star-Splitter

The Hill Wife

LONELINESS

HOUSE FEAR

THE SMILE

THE OFT-REPEATED DREAM

THE IMPULSE

The Telephone

Revelation

Going for Water

A Line-Storm Song

Willful Homing

Birches

Mowing

Mending Wall

The Mountain

Brown's Descent

The Vanishing Red

To the Thawing Wind

A Lone Striker

Two Tramps in Mud Time

Love and a Question

An Old Man's Winter Night

The Gum-Gatherer

The Investment

The Figure in the Doorway

To a Young Wretch

The Wood-Pile

The Death of a Hired Man

3

On Going Unnoticed

West-running Brook

A Patch of Old Snow

A Time to Talk

A Boundless Moment

Bereft

A Winter Eden

Hyla Brook

The Flower Boat

The Census-Taker

A Brook in the City

Evening in a Sugar Orchard

The Onset

Spring Pools

In a Disused Graveyard

Sand Dunes

The Birthplace

For Once, Then, Something

A Serious Step Lightly Taken

Tree at My Window

Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

4

Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter

On a Bird Singing in Its Sleep

The Oven Bird

Our Singing Strength

A Minor Bird

Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same

A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury

A Drumlin Woodchuck

The White-tailed Hornet

Waspish

Departmental

Fireflies in the Garden

Design

Canis Major

Two Look at Two

The Cow in Apple Time

The Runaway

The Bear

5

The Hardship of Accounting

Not All There

The Wrights' Biplane

Precaution

In a Poem

It Bids Pretty Fair

parA Cloud Shadow

The Secret Sits

6

Choose Something Like a Star

Our Hold on the Planet

Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length

Triple Bronze

I Could Give All to Time

My November Guest

Storm Fear

Wind and Window Flower

October

Good Hours

Pea Brush

I Will Sing You One-O

To Earthward

La Noche Triste

Song of the Wave

My Butterfly

The Need of Being Versed in Country Things

The Sound of the Trees

In Hardwood Groves

Nothing Gold Can Stay

After Apple-Picking

The Grindstone

The Kitchen Chimney

Gathering Leaves

A Leaf Treader

A Hillside Thaw

On a Tree Fallen Across the Road

A Passing Glimpse

Dust of Snow

Putting in the Seed

The Line-Gang

Fire and Ice

Riders

The Master Speed

The Gift Outright

A Considerable Speck

The Silken Tent

Good-bye and Keep Cold

A Prayer in Spring

Into My Own

Come In

The Road Not Taken

Index of First Lines

Index of Titles

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