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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN num: 9780312983321
ISBN number: 0312983328
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: March 15, 2002
Publishing house: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Sale Popularity Level: 230951
Studio: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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A proven bestseller time and time again, Robert Frost's Poems contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are 'Birches,' 'Mending Wall,' 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,' 'Two Tramps at Mudtime,' 'Choose Something Like a Star,' and 'The Gift Outright,' which Frost read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy.' An essential addition to every home library, Robert Frost's Poems is a celebration of the New England countryside, Frost's appreciation of common folk, and his wonderful understanding of the human condition. These classic verses touch our hearts and leave behind a lasting impression.
* Over 100 poems
* All Frost's best known verses from throughout his life
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For the price, there is no better collection. It is Untermeyer's special gift to make it more fun to read.
The author's commentary between each poem can break your pacing but it was a cheap book and every once in a while he has something interesting to say.
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This is really a great collection of frost's work. It is a great book for anyone who is interested in reading his poems. It has some of his best work complied into one easy to read book.
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I had not read much of Frost since I saw him give a reading at Dartmouth College in the last year of his life. This September, I went back to New Hampshire for the very first time in 39 years, visiting my old campus -- and Robert Frost's farm near Franconia Notch. In my bag was Louis Untermeyer's delightful selection of Frost poems, interspersed by his lucid, but unobtrusive commentary.
Frost is a poet who has a very distinctive "voice" in his works. It takes a bit of ferreting out to see how it changes from one poem to another, sometimes substantially, from wry and folksy all the way to devastatingly ironic. To help us with the process, Untermeyer groups several like poems together between blocks of commentary. Each group acted as a separate unit to assist in breaking the text into readable chunks.
Especially with a book of poetry, that is no mean feat. It helped that Untermeyer knew Frost as well as any man alive. The selection is superb, including my favorites: "After Apple-Picking," "The Sound of the Trees," "The Death of the Hired Man," and "Mending Wall."
For the price, there is no better collection. It is Untermeyer's special gift to make it more fun to read.
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I would like to make an additional comment in reference to the two previous reviewers. While I certainly agree with their evaluation of Frost's ability and scope, many who hear or read "man and nature" might not make the connection Frost so often made in his works, letters, and life. Frost was constantly drawing the line of demarcation: between our dream relationship with nature and our actually lack thereof. But moreover, the tenuous relationship between science (mankind's reasoning mind) and the greater world (nature's passion and drives).
Frost not only looked at what we gained from "progress," but also what we lost. After all, what is progress? It certainly depends on your view...
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Frost always set man in an interesting light to nature. This collection catches the flow of his thoughts clearly. It's a fine collection with a lot to offer. People who are not used to Frost will like this. It will serve as a great introduction to the man. I still have a special place in my heart for 'The Gift Outright'. A good deep read. Educational.
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