The Essential Robert Frost: Poems from A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, New Hampshire, and West-Running Brook

The Essential Robert Frost brings together the finest poems from five of his most celebrated collections — A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, New Hampshire, and West-Running Brook — spanning the years 1913 to 1928, the decade and a half in which Frost defined his voice and changed American poetry forever.Frost wrote about stone walls and snowy evenings, about birch trees and apple picking, about ordinary men and women living quietly in the hills of New England. He wrote in language so plain it seems effortless — and so precise it lasts forever. Beneath the rural surfaces of his poems runs something darker and deeper: the passage of time, the weight of loss, the strange consolation of the natural world, and the courage it takes to keep going.This volume includes his most beloved poems — The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Birches, Mending Wall, Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Acquainted with the Night — alongside longer dramatic masterpieces such as The Death of the Hired Man, Home Burial, and New Hampshire, and the extraordinary title poem of West-Running Brook.Carefully selected and introduced, this is the ideal volume for readers discovering Frost for the first time, and for those returning to poems they thought they already knew."A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." — Robert FrostPick up your copy. The woods are lovely. Read more