The Road Not Taken and Other Poems - Softcover

Frost, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420955179 ISBN 13: 9781420955170

Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry, Robert Frost is best remembered for his depictions of early 20th century rural New England life and for his command of American colloquial speech. Criticized by some as being out of touch with the Modernist movement in poetry exemplified by contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings, it is probably in fact his adherence to traditionalism that so endeared him to his fans. Literary critic Randall Jarrell described Frost as one of “the greatest of the American poets of [the 20th] century” whose works were serious and honest and although often dealt with rather simple subjects were underlaid with an intense thematic complexity. For example the title poem of this collection “The Road Not Taken” is often interpreted as one about regret over choices not made and exemplifying the benefit of not following the crowd. Frost implied that it is however a comment about indecision and finding meaning in inconsequential decisions. Collected together here are three of Frost’s earliest collections, “A Boy’s Will”, first published in 1913, “North of Boston”, first published in 1914, and “Mountain Interval”, first published in 1916. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

About this title

About the Author:

ROBERT FROST (1874 1963) was one of the most celebrated American poets of the twentieth century. He was awarded four Pulitzer Prizes and the Congressional Gold Medal for his poetry.
DAVID ORR is the poetry columnist for the "New York Times Book Review." He is the winner of the Nona Balakian Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and his writing has appeared in the "New Yorker," "Poetry," "Slate," and the "Yale Review.""

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®

About this edition

• Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1420955179
• ISBN 13: 9781420955170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130