North of Boston

by Robert Frost

Overview

While A Boy's Will informed the world that a new talent was on the horizon North of Boston proclaimed loudly that that talent had arrived. This extraordinary book of poetry put Robert Frost at the forefront of American poetry a position he would occupy for the rest of his life. This edition unlike most other editions has been carefully restored to its original first edition form preserving line spacing and formatting.

Mr. Frost is an honest writer writing from himself from his own knowledge and emotion . . . he is quite consciously and definitely putting New England life into verse. --Ezra Pound

The best poetry written in America in a long time.-- William Butler Yeats

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798880908936
Publisher:	Start Classics
Publication date:	05/15/2024
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet. Born in San Francisco, Frost moved with his family to Lawrence, Massachusetts following the death of his father, a teacher and editor. There, he attended Lawrence High School and went on to study for a brief time at Dartmouth College before returning home to work as a teacher, factory worker, and newspaper delivery person. Certain of his calling as a poet, Frost sold his first poem in 1894, embarking on a career that would earn him acclaim and honor unlike any American poet before or since. Before his paternal grandfather’s death, he purchased a farm in Derry, New Hampshire for Robert and his wife Elinor. For the next decade, Frost worked on the farm while writing poetry in the mornings before returning to teaching once more. In 1912, having moved to England, Frost published A Boy’s Will, his first book of poems. Through the next several years, he wrote and published poetry while befriending such writers as Edward Thomas and Ezra Pound. In 1915, after publishing North of Boston (1914) in London, Frost returned to the United States to settle on another farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he continued writing and teaching and began lecturing. Over the next several decades, Frost published numerous collections of poems, including New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1924) and Collected Poems (1931), winning a total of four Pulitzer Prizes and establishing his reputation as the foremost American poet of his generation.

Table of Contents

The Pasture

Mending Wall

The Death of the Hired Man

The Mountain

A Hundred Collars

Home Burial

The Black Cottage

Blueberries

A Servant to Servants

After Apple-Picking

The Code

The Generations of Men

The Housekeeper

The Fear

The Self-Seeker

The Wood-Pile

Good Hours

Editorial Reviews

Mr. Frost is an honest writer, writing from himself, from his own knowledge and emotion . . . he is quite consciously and definitely putting New England life into verse. —Ezra Pound

The best poetry written in America in a long time.— William Butler Yeats

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