Robert Frost set out with the ambition "to be a poet for all sorts and kinds." The story of how he succeeded in his ambition is dramatized in the poems themselves.
Includes the entirety of Frost's North of Boston (1914); selections from A boy's will (1913); generous selections from Mountain Interval (1916) and New Hampshire (1923); and a selection of lyrics in the section titled Later poems, from West-running brook (1928), A further range (1936), A witness tree (1942), and Steeple bush (1947) Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-388) and index
Contents:
A boy's will (1913) Into my own Ghost house Rose pogonias Mowing The trial by existence The tuft of flowers Reluctance North of Boston (1914) 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 Mountain interval (1916) The road not taken Christmas trees An old man's winter night In the home stretch Meeting and passing Hyla Brook The oven bird Birches Putting in the seed The cow in apple time An encounter The bonfire "Out, out---" The gum-gatherer The vanishing red The sound of the trees New Hampshire (1923) A star in a stone-boat Maple The axe-helve The grindstone Paul's wife Place for a third Two witches. I. The witch of Coös II. The pauper witch of Grafton Fire and ice To E.T. Stopping by woods on a snowy evening For once, then, something The onset A hillside thaw The need of being versed in country things Later poems Acquainted with the night Two tramps in mud time Desert places Neither out far nor in deep Design The silken tent The most of it The subverted flower The gift outright Directive
