Description: 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 the sense of what poetry is and what it can do. In this brilliant selection of Frost's classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time."
--Lewis Gannett
--Time "No other American poet has so much art or so much subject matter."
--Mark Van Doren "Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards."
--Robert Graves